Workers of the Central Pacific Railroad: Chinese peasants from the ... As their presence increased, the Chinese immigrants faced growing prejudice and an increasingly restrictive laws limiting ...

As many as 1,200 Chinese immigrants died constructing it. However, on this day of celebration, railroad executives decided to exclude their Chinese workers from the official ceremony and ...

"Discover how 1, 500 Chinese workers built a railroad at lightning speed ... nation is setting the example for tackling illegal immigration I made too many withdrawals during the first 6 years ...

The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.

Hall, CA Supreme Court rules that a white man charged with a murder cannot be convicted on the testimony of a Chinese witness 1865 Central Pacific Railroad ... allows immigration on basis of family ...

Asian immigrants have played a vital role in the development of this country. Working as miners, railroad builders, farmers, factory workers, and fishermen, the Chinese represented 20% of California's ...

"We have proved their value as laborers & everybody is trying Chinese & now we can't get them," Crocker wrote. His brother Charles, the project's contractor, raised the workers' monthly wages four ...

In the 1860s, it was the largest and longest-occupied camp for Chinese laborers who played an indispensable role in constructing the Transcontinental Railroad. The workers, facing perilous ...

In the early 1900s, Chinese immigrants settled in Canada to escape ... and difficult section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. One worker died for every mile of track lay through the Rocky ...