1 janv. 1865 - Transcontinental Railroad Recruits Chinese

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The Central Pacific Company, as a response to a severe shortage of labor begins hiring Chinese to build the transcontinental railroad, a massive building project to create a railroad that would connect the American East and West together. They took advantage of cheap Chinese labor in California, hiring over 2500 Chinese Americans to perform the backbreaking and dangerous work that would be required to build the railroad. The conditions of their work were poor at best, and they were paid almost nothing. (Continuity: industry using cheap immigrant labor to complete large building projects)

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