The railroads in the western United States were primarily built by the ethnic group
- Germans
- Chinese
- Spanish
- English

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Answer: Chinese  after a job ad resulted in only a few hundred responses from white laborers.

Chinese workers building a cut and a bank at Sailor's Spur in the Sierra foothills for the Central Pacific Railroad in California, 1866.

Chinese workers building a cut and a bank at Sailor's Spur in the Sierra foothills for the Central Pacific Railroad in California, 1866.