Both the Irish and the Chinese immigrants helped to build the railroads in America.
They helped fuel prejudice against German immigrants.
There has always been a belief that immigrants could become citizens. The country started as a nation of immigrants and immigrants built the railroads, industry’s, towns, arts, and were involved in the political system.
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.
Chinese Immigrants played a major role in building the first transcontinental railroad.
The Chinese
Benevolent associations
Germans. Novanet ;D
Chinese immigrants were the most prominent laborers.
They are a prominent activist group. They also helped build the America you know today.
Whomever happened to be the latest bunch ...the most famous were the Chinese and the Irish.
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