Alaska was the 49th state to join the union. We purchased it from Russia for 2 cents an acre. Even so it was still 7.2 million dollars. Which is quite a lot of money even though it might not seem it. Yeah, so if Alaska cost 2 cents an acre now, many rich people could buy Alaska. The man behind buying Alaska was Secretary of State William Seward. He was a strong advacate of US expansion. When he bought Alaska, some people thought it was a big mistake. Just a big, frozen wasteland. But, those people were wrong. Alaska turned out to be full of gold and oil. Silly Americans.
Alaska represents the theme "Economic intrest drove the expansion." It represents this theme because Seward bought it beacause he thought it would be a jump in trade between Russia and America. As stated a lot in the past few posts trade = economics. So economics drove the expansion of the US into Alaska.
Alaska was the 49th state to join the union. We purchased it from Russia for 2 cents an acre. Even so it was still 7.2 million dollars. Which is quite a lot of money even though it might not seem it. Yeah, so if Alaska cost 2 cents an acre now, many rich people could buy Alaska. The man behind buying Alaska was Secretary of State William Seward. He was a strong advacate of US expansion. When he bought Alaska, some people thought it was a big mistake. Just a big, frozen wasteland. But, those people were wrong. Alaska turned out to be full of gold and oil. Silly Americans.
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