caption: Discrimination in the West  Mexican workers were hired by the railroad managers to construct rail lines in AZ, CA, NM, and NV  They were forced to work for less money  Also a major source for agricultural labor in the Southwest  Debt peonage -- system of involuntary servitude in which a laborer is forced to work of a debt  Continued until 1911 when Congress declared it a violation of the 13 th amendment
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