Where Can You Find? Where can you find frozen rivers used as
roads?
Think About As You Read
1. What landforms and climates are in
Russia?
2. Why is transportation poor in many
parts of Russia?
3. What problems does Russia have today?
New Words
• tundra
heavy industries
• steppes
• glasnost
Russian
• shortage
Orthodox Church • social problems
republics
alcohol abuse
• plots
People and Places
Imagine traveling across Russia by train. You would
board the Trans-Siberian Railroad in Asia near the
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Moscow

It is the Lena river, located in Russia here are some of them

in the 1800s, chinese workers migrated to the united states, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the american west, and as chinese laborers grew successful in the united states, a number of them became entrepreneurs in their own right. as the numbers of chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-chinese sentiment among other workers in the american economy. this finally resulted in legislation that aimed to limit future immigration of chinese workers to the united states, and threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the united states and china.