USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Chinese workers made a significant contribution to the construction of the first transcontinental railroad during the 1860s. Historians estimate 12, 000 Chinese immigrants worked for the Central Pacific Railroad, blasting tunnels and laying track from Sacramento, through the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and into Utah.

Detailed explanation-2: -Central Pacific Railroad, American railroad company founded in 1861 by a group of California merchants known later as the “Big Four” (Collis P. Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker); they are best remembered for having built part of the first American transcontinental rail line.

Detailed explanation-3: -More than 160 years ago, Lim Lip Hong left China and immigrated to the United States, where he helped build the Central Pacific Railroad, overseen by Leland Stanford.

Detailed explanation-4: -About 10, 000 to 15, 000 Chinese workers came to the United States to build the Central Pacific Railroad. Chinese workers found some economic opportunity but also experienced hostility, racism, violence, and legal exclusion. Many came as single men; others left families behind.

Detailed explanation-5: -One of the groups that literally took on the brunt of the work, were the Chinese laborers. Most of the Chinese workers, who numbered over 11, 000 by the end of the project, were employed by the Central Pacific Railroad building out of Sacramento, California. The use of Chinese labor started as an experiment.