the Chinese chipped their way through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and they hung from baskets when they did it. they were a big help to the dangerous job of building the Transcontinental railroad.
They worked on the transcontinental railroad and got about $1 dollar a day.
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No, the Trans-Continental Railroad was built primarily by Chinese immigrants and African-Americans.
chinese built it to cross the people to the other side of california
that makes no sense what so ever
If speaking purely on ethnic groups responsible in building the American railroad system -- the answers are: German, Irish, and Chinese.
The Chinese started building the Transcontinental railroad in 1863 and the Transcontinental railroad was finished in 1869.
The Irish, Chinese, and African Americans comprised the workforce on the Transcontinental Railroad.
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The Chinese worked mostly under the Central Pacific railroad company.
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I would say, from a few websites I found, that 11,000 Chinese people worked on the railroad. They worked the hardest and had great skills to work on hard to fix problems they used to fix for the Great Wall of China. -KKBURT
Chinese Immigrants played a major role in building the first transcontinental railroad.
It was hard
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Chinese and Irish
It depends on which railroad your talking about. Leland Stanford drove the Golden Spike on the Transcontinental Railroad. The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah.
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