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During the construction of the first transcontinental railroad, the Central Pacific Railroad started in California and built the railroad east to Promontory Point, Utah, where it was connected with the railroad built from the east by the Union Pacific Railroad. What was the ethnicity of the majority of the workers who built the Central Pacific Railroad?

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the ethnic majority of the workers who helped build the Central Pacific Railroad was mainly immigrants from mainland China or Chinese

the ethnic majority of the workers who helped build the Union Pacific Railroad was from Europe.

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