In California, Chinese immigrants were plentiful, so railroad tycoons capitalized on these people because they were a cheap labor force and used them to build the Transcontinental Railroad from California to Utah where it met up with the railline that was being built westward.
In 1941, the national defense industry was prohibited from engaging in racial discrimination. This was the result of C. an executive order issued by President Roosevelt.
This executive order was signed June 25, 1941 by President Franklin Roosevelt.
