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Chinese workers even helped lay a record ten miles of track in just twelve hours, ... The Union Pacific was built primarily by Irish laborers from the Eastern Seaboard who ... After the first transcontinental railroad was completed.
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Which immigrants helped build the transcontial railroad?
Mostly Irish on the UP, mainly Chinese on the Central Pacific.
Irish immigrants helped build what Railroad?
Irish immigrants worked on the union pacific railroad to help build west from Omaha Nebraska. The Union Pacific was in fierce competition with the central pacific railroad so the irish sometimes would sabotage the work of the central pacific.
Did Irish immigrants help build the railroads?
Yes there were Irish immigrants that helped to build railroads.
What group of immigrants helped build the railroads?
Both the Irish and the Chinese immigrants helped to build the railroads in America.
How did the immigrants helped build the transcontinental railroad?
chinese and russin\
What role did the Irish and Chinese immigrants play in the settlement of the West?
Irish and Chinese immigrants provided a large portion of the workforce to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
Who helped the Canadians build the railroad?
Most of the labour used to build the Canadian Pacific Railway were immigrants because they would work for less pay. On the eastern side the largest ethnic group would have been Irish. On the western side it was the Chinese.
What immigrants helped build the Erie Canal?
The Irish immigrants dug the ditch and the German stone cutters created the locks.
Chinese immigrants helped build the what railroad?
The Central Pacific, California Central Railroad, and the San Jose Railway.
What immigrant group helped build the railroad?
Whomever happened to be the latest bunch ...the most famous were the Chinese and the Irish.
Who helped build the trans continental railroad?
Mostly the Americans and the Chinese helped build the first Continental Railroad in 1869.
Which railroad did Chinese immigrants help build?
Central Pacific
