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1. They first arrived as Forty-Niners during the California Gold Rush in 1849.

2. The Chinese built the western portion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869, and the Irish built the eastern portion...they linked up on Promotory Point in Utah.

3. Chinese workmen built the levies in Northern California.

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