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Chinese immigrants were treated very poorly by the Central Pacific Railroad company, as well as their home state of California. They were paid significantly less than white workers of the same skill level. They also weren't provided with complementary food and shelter like the white workers. They were given the most dangerous of the available jobs. As for California, the state passed laws keeping them from voting or becoming citizens, segregating their children from schools, and unfairly taxing them.
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Who won the election of 1860 with a platform against slavery in the territories but for tariffs a transcontinental railroad and a Homestead Act?
Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with a platform against slavery in the territories but for tariffs a transcontinental railroad and a Homestead Act.
White people and established African Americans in cities?
found high paying jobs
What did the transcontinental railroads use their zone of indemnity lands to prevent?
Either: a) judicial actions against the railroad b) military confiscation of lands for forts c) state taxation of railroad waxed fat d) sale if federal land along the right-of-way e) homesteading along the railroad
How were African Americans and Native Americans discriminated against?
African Americans were used as slaves, discriminated against because white people didnt treat them as equal. Native Americans because they were forced to move west in "the trail of tears" because that one white president was greedy and discriminated against them
What did White people and established African Americans in cities do?
Often discriminated against freedmen.
