Vocabulary
People who move to another country.
What are immigrants?
The biggest challenge for the Central Pacific Railroad Company in building the railroad.
There were few available laborers.
In 1864 the Central Pacific Railroad Company began __________ workers.
What is recruiting.
To preserve their cultural traditions, what did the Chinese workers form?
They formed camp communities near the railroad.
Something or someone is set apart from others.
What is isolated?
Who were the laborers hired to build the railroad?
What are Chinese immigrants?
What percent of the Central Pacific workers were Chinese?
90% were Chinese workers.
During their time off, what did the Chinese workers do?
They spent their time resting, washing and mending their clothes.
Attracting people to a job, other causes or events.
What is recruiting?
Around what year did the Chinese immigrants make the dangerous journey to California?
In the 1850's during the gold rush.
Some of the difficulties included discrimination, food and housing.
To sew ripped or torn clothing.
What is mending.
Customs or beliefs passed on from one generation/family to another.
What is traditions.
What was the reason the Chinese immigrants left working for the mines.
They left the mines due to discrimination.
How much money did the white laborers and Chinese ?laborers get paid a month?
They were paid $30 a month.
What was the responsibility of one of the most important member of the Chinese communities?
They cooked food, boiled water for tea, for washing and bathing.
The young engineer that built railroads.
Who is Theodore Judah?
Unfair or prejudice treatment of people based on race.
What was provided free to the white laborers and not to the Chinese laborers?
What is free housing and food.
Who was the President of the United States during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Who is Abraham Lincoln.