The Central Pacific relied on a Chinese immigrant workforce, particularly for dangerous jobs such as planting nitroglycerine, giving rise to the phrase, "a Chinaman's chance" to describe a low expectation of of success.
The Union Pacific relied on Irish and African American workers. The Central Pacific hired Chinese workers. The immigrant workers were low-paid and did difficult work.
The Central Pacific relied on workers from the country of China, and the Union Pacific Company relied on workers from many nationalities, like African Americans, Native Americans, Irish, and so on. Hope this helps!
Irish & African Amercian. =) (Hope it helped!)
Chinese emigrant workers were used to build Central Pacific Railroad. It is estimated that 12000 such workers were employed which was 90 percent of the total work force.
All workers were needed
Irish, Chinese, and Americans... The most important jobs were given to the Chinese and Irish. Lots of men died >.< If you want more information, go check www.google.com or www.wikipedia.com or something like that xD lol.Thanks for reading this ^.- (winky winky =P LOL)
tunnels
Chinese
i think its ireland..
Central Pacific workers had to blast through mountain ranges to lay track. Novanet
one dollar a month
Central Pacific workers had to blast through mountain ranges to lay track. Novanet