Posted by 4Danielle on October 10, 2009 at 10:30pm
There's two companies, union pasific and central pasific. Union hired Irish immigrants, and is the biggest and oldeset railroad. They hired very few immigrants.Central Pasific; it started in June,28 1864 and hired thousands of chinese, they would lay down tracks and people from Kwantung Province. They were known to have bilt more of the western portion.The railroads helped buisnesses a lot, and later on the railroads just got bigger and bigger. It was easier to travel. The railroad went to mississipi river and then a couple years later it met in the missouri river.
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