mmigrants. During which time the Chinese were treated very wrongfully by the railroad supervisors and managers. After most of the railroads were built most of the Chinese immigrants were working as cleaners, that is as a cloths cleaners and servants. At one point the president ordered the hut of Chinese immigration to the United States. Andrew Carnagie ordered railroads to charge higher freight fees in Birmingham. This in turn angered the railroad workers and led to strikes everywhere in the country. These strikes were in turn very violent at which time state troops killed a few and injured many more strikers. The greatest scandal of the Grant Administration grew out of corruption enveloping railroad promotion, and the great amount of money this administration and the railroads were making by the land and advertisement and corruption the railroad brought.John D. Rockefeller,s Standard Oil Company controlled almost ninety percent of the nation’s oil refining capacity. As you can see the railroads controlled the shipment cost and also controlled the shipment of all major businesses such as mining of minerals, oil, steel and cotton. ...
