Notably excluded from this photograph celebrating the completion of the transcontinental railroad were
A) the women who ran the camps where laborers resided.
B) the Chinese laborers who helped build it.
C) the gold-rush millionaires who paid for it.
D) the Congressmen who voted for it.
E) Union Pacific and Central Pacific officials.
Answer: B) the Chinese laborers who helped build it.
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