Chinese Immigrants played a major role in building the first transcontinental railroad.
Whomever happened to be the latest bunch ...the most famous were the Chinese and the Irish.
The people to finish the first transcontinental railroad was an 8-man group who were given the honor or laying down the last tracks on May 10, 1869.
Chinese and Irish Immigrants
Chinese Immigrants played a major role in building the first transcontinental railroad.
it was a group that created the transcontinental railroad. one group was central pacific and the other one is called union pacific they had to go to different places to be able to make the railroadNo one.By the time they built it, it was old technology (40 to 60 years old),it was just a kind of sales pitch (to make money).
Chinese did most of the work from the west coast with Irish labour employed from the east
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.
The Chinese arrived in large numbers on the U.S. west coast for the primary purpose of working on the Transcontinental Railroad in the 19th century
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