What Role Did Railroad Workers Play In Western Expansion

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After the Civil war political, economic and cultural factors made a humongous contributed for Western expansion. Railroad owners, Railroad Workers, Homesteader, Immigrants, African Americans, Cowboys, Ranchers, Miners and U.S Government were all part of the Western Expansion. The two groups that you would be inform about in this essay are Railroad Worker and the Immigrants. Both of these groups had an exceeding role in Western Expansion. Both the Railroad workers and the Immigrants had to faced oodles amount challenges. For instances the Chines have the no respect and they were treated poorly even though they help build the Transcontinental Railroad. Another challenge was the amount of motivation that each group felt being involved in the Western expansion. Immigrants and Railroad worker had many other problems than not being respected. For example, weather or not they …show more content…

The Chinese were hated to the point where they were not allowed to be in any photograph. Railroad worker often worked in harsh and dangerous condition. Railroad worker worked with their lives in their hands, lots of worker die working on the Railroads. Chinese were immigrants they immigrated from China to the West so make they were treated abominably. They had no respect at all, even though the other immigrants from Ireland had some. There were 15,000 Chinese immigrants employed with the Central Pacific Railroad company. Chinese technically began building the Transcontinental Railroad. In my perspective Chines were one step ahead of being treated like African Americans. After the Chinese help build the Railroad they were placed on a bus which took them back to China. I believe that that was the worst possible thing to happening to Chinese because most Chinese moved to the west looking for better life. Most Chinese moved to the West looking for an easy way to make money. Railroad worker often worked in harsh and dangerous

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