Immigrant Chinese Railroad Laborers

1. What type of work did the Chinese immigrants do?

2. Why do you think that they continued to wear the Chinese styled hats even though they were living in America?

3. Look at the man in the distance to the far right, what do you think his job is? Do you think he belonged to the same class as the Chinese laborers?

4.What do you think would compel the Chinese immigrants to come to America to endure such back-breaking work?

5. What would it feel like to be an immigrant worker building the railroad?

6. How does the work of these workers almost a 150 years ago compare to the work that immigrants to American do today?