they made about 35 dollars a month so about two to four dollars a day.
Railroad workers in the 1800's made a dollar per day
28 dollars per month
i think it was about 50 million
About $30
The Federal government paid the two railroad companies that built it by granting them sections (one square mile) on alternating sides of any tracks that they built. The railroad companies could do whatever they wanted with this land and often sold it off. Many other western railroads were later funded the same way.
The United States paid Mexico 10 million dollars for the Gadsden Purchase, which included about 29,670 square miles of territory in what is now southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The purpose of the purchase was to acquire land for the construction of a transcontinental railroad.
We don't have slaves. Now people have jobs working for people by cooking, cleanig and other stuff that a slave might have done. But these people get paid.
The Gadsden Purchase took place in June of 1853. The US believed that a transcontinental railroad would begin in New Orleans and head west to California. The Gadsden Purchase was required to make the railway to the West Coast more efficient. The US paid Mexico $10 million for that small territory.
normally 4-6 pounds a year, if you were lucky you would get paid 14 pounds a year, at the most.
The Federal government paid the two railroad companies that built it by granting them sections (one square mile) on alternating sides of any tracks that they built. The railroad companies could do whatever they wanted with this land and often sold it off. Many other western railroads were later funded the same way.
The Chinese, Irish, and the Americans worked on the Transcontinental Railroad. The Chinese had 11,000 workers and they are greatly cheered today because without them, the railroad would not have been completed that fast. I'd say how slow it still takes us Americans to build schools and new roads that we might still be working on the First Transcontinental Railroad today!! The Chinese were paid 28 dollars a month and worked from before sunrise to way after sundown. When the Chinese have a job to do they stick to it!!! - KK
10 cents an hr
$27,000-$55,000 depending on the skill of the individual
A fake company set up by a railroad to make more money - APEX
The two railroad companies were scheduled to meet at Promontory Point, Utah and drive in the "golden spike". A celebration was planned however, rioting Chinese railroad workers rioted against each other over a trivial matter. Two private companies had recruited many Chinese workers to build the transcontinental railroad and the companies had recruited men with different dialects and districts. Then there was a separate riot against one railroad because of back wages they owed to their Chinese workers. After being held hostage, the railway owners finally paid their workers. This problem had delayed the meeting of the two trains by two days.
It made many Native Americans have to leave their reservation, they had trouble living and surviving after this.It polluted the aircreated more jobs ( like the job of building the railroads) that abused and under-paid their workers ( mostly immigrants)
they paid people to kill the buffalo so the animals would not block the tracks
not much
In the US, they receive a "paycheck".
It was partially funded by government grants of land along the route. The railroad companies had to sell the land in order to receive the money. The railroads thus funded were required to pay back the government by giving discounts on shipping of government goods until the 1940s when it was recognized that they had "paid back" far more than they had originally received.
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