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Yes Abraham Lincoln did get employed for help building the first transcontinental railroad
they came to Jordan and Joely and asked for money to hire Mexicans to do it since they do everything else. :)
Central Pacific
The Central Pacific Railroad Company, California Central Railroad, and the San Jose Railway.
The Chinese came to Texas to look for gold and to help build the First Transcontinental Railroad.
I have been researching this topic and in the childrens book, "Life in the Old West- The Railroad" it said that the Germans were involved in building the track.
Help settlers travel faster
people celebrated when the railroad was complete! :D
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.
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.
No, they did not. The Japanese started to arrive close to the completion of the build. Industrialists, particularly in San Francisco, sought to replace the vacuum created when the Chinese went off to build the railroad.
No, he didn't precisely help finish the railroad, although he did help fund it. It was Leland Stanford who really finished the railroad.