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Chinese Immigration Dbq

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Many groups immigrated to the United States, mostly in California, for land, jobs, wealth and freedom. One of the main ethnic groups of immigrants that came to California to work were the Chinese. Many companies used the Chinese men to work on railroads that connected America through transportation that later helped develop modern day America. According to Document M, “Chinese immigrants compromised 90% of the 10,000 laborers who laid tracks eastward from Sacramento across the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains to connect with the Union Pacific.” That would mean, that there were 9,000 Chinese builders and workers that were building the first ever trans-continental railroad in America. Even though Chinese immigrants helped America grow in certain

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