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We bought Alaska for 7.2 million dollars. Alaska has gave us gold, led, and tin for 50 years.

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I love the Monroe Doctrine because it asserts U.S. authority without unnecessary violence or threats @AvaPeters

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Yellow Journalism was fake news and lies @zoee johnson

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Alaska was found to be full of value like gold and oil and naval bases
@masonlitchke

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Yellow journalism started the war with Spain. What yellow Journalists do is basically fake news because they make it sound worse than it is. And it stank bad♿️ @jake

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The Queen of Hawaii was voted to be out of her position and now they joined the United States. ♿️ @Ryan Meese

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Alaska was good because it had alot  of resources
@jasen m

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The Panama Canal lowered shipping costs, enabled faster transportation of goods. We get to even use it! @Trevor S.

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It started world war 1
@justin.francisco

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OMG! Ever since the Panama Canal was built, the shipping process has been tremendously faster! Can you believe it? @KadenPennertz

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We Americans took the Philippines for no reason, and they deserve freedom.
@FinnPehl

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#goodAlaskanmaterials
We bought Alaska for 7.2 million dollars. Alaska has gave us gold, led, and tin for 50 years.@WestonH

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US had yellow journalism which started false advertising to get us to go into war. Also we took over countries that didn’t want us to. @KyraG

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Hawaii became our 50th state and we got lots of sugar and pineapple. This also gave us a major Military Base. @CarolineA

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The Americans beat the Spanish after 4 months of fighting.@Brandon Madsen

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#alaska wasn’t a mistake. @jasen m

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I love how the Monroe doctrine is helping us state our authority without hurting anyone or starting a war. @PiperD

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Alaska was worth 7.2 million dollars. It gave us foil, coal, tin, lead and lots of land to use. It wasn’t built in 1867. @abbyu

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The Cubans have been fighting for independence over Spain, then the U. S. Took it all away from them. I think they need to give back their hard work.
@Will S

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Yellow journalism started the war with Spain. What yellow Journalists do is basically fake news because they make it sound worse than it is. And it stank♿️

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The Spanish and American has begun to free Cuba from the Spanish because they were “starving them” and “treating them poorly” @Jasen Arola

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Yellow journalism is based on extreme exaggeration and lies. It was quite popular in the 1890’s. @AddisonS

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After the Spanish American War it proved the US was a strong world power.
@TaylorB

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# wasn’t a mistake
Alaska was found to be full of value to the United States like gold and oil and naval bases
@masonlitchke

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Hawaii overthrew their queen and joined the U.S. to not pay tariffs on items
@GC

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#Exposeyellowjournolist @burginS

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#Panama Canal! it was built in panama so we could get to the Pacific Ocean faster @connergeorge

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#alaska was worth it

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The Spanish American War was started because of a ship, the Maine, that blew up mysteriously and the U.S. congress blamed it on Spain and Cuban rebels started a violent revolution of in 1895 against Spanish rule. The war quickly ended, but ownership issues over the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and the Hawaiian Islands.@MeganK.

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Alaska has resources that are useful. Some resources are coal, oil, gold, and lead.
@Alyssa L

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When US bought Alaska, people called it Seward’s Folly, because they thought it was just a state of ice! @RyleeP

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The Panama Canal lowered shipping cost, and enabled faster transportation of goods. We get to even use it!

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It is huge because the shoreline is 40 miles and the water in the Pacific is about 50 miles. @Breann C

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It started Spanish American war
Eli holcomb

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The US bought the Alaska territory for only $7.2 million! Seward, the Secretary of State, convinced the Congress to buy the land. No one approved of the US buying this land. That’s why they called it “Seward’s Folly”. But later, lots of resources were found like gold, coal, oil, tin, and lead.

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It started the Spanish American war matt Anderson

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I think Alaska was a good purchase because we got a lot of land for not a

lot of money. We also got a lot of resources.
@Christopher Hoover

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The Maine was a ship that mysteriously sank on February 15, 1898
@Landon Malmquist

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We bought it from Russia for 7.2 million and there was a lot of coal,lead,oil, and gold. @lbischoff

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@Katie Jamtgaard

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Yellow journalists started the Spanish American war

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Ty seelye

What luck that we got this for so little. Let’s go seward

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The maine was a ship that mysteriously sank on February 15, 1898

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#Yellow journalism is bad

Yellow journalism is fake news. It started the Spanish American war
@CassidyAlleman

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Taking other colonies for ourselves isn’t good, some of them just need to be independent, and sometimes we’d even overthrow them if they didn’t want to give themselves up to us.

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We purchased Alaska for $7.2 million. At the time we thought it was a bad purchase but it actually was a great purchase and we got lots of natural resources from it. @ezimmer

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@Myles Gunderson

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The rough riders were a group of people led by Teddy Roosevelt. They fought for the u.s in the Spanish American war. @ Cyndi D.

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What luck that we got this for so little. Let’s go Seward.

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# yellow journalism a journalist who over exaggerated everything

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The reason this was a good purchase is because we got resources and land for military bases.
@ZackO

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We freed Cuba

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#yellowjournalismisbad

It lead to the Spanish American war

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People who are against anything for imperialism!

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The US bought the Alaska territory for only $7.2 million! Seward, the Secretary of State, convinced the US to buy the land. No one approved of the US buying this land. That’s why they called it “Seward’s Folly”. But later, lots of resources were found like gold, coal, oil, tin, and lead. @BrookeA

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I think Alaska was a good purchase because we got a lot of land for not a

lot of money. We also got a lot of resources.
Christopher H.

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#AlaksaPurchaseWasGood
I think the Alaska purchase was a very good choice and it benefited us. We only had to pay Russia 7.2 million donllars!! Most people said it was unuseful land until, one day somebody found gold. @Krista C.

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@Joe Guertin

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Yellow journalism is so called “fake news”. It’s basically talking about something the doesn’t exist or something false. In other words it’s people that’s hate on something without a legitimate reason.

@ReidZ

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#YellowJournalismIsBad

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@Katie Jamtgaard

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Alaska gave lots of new land for only 7.2 million dollars! We gained more military bases, and new recourses such as oil.
@LennaJohnson

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More oil food and gold
@Nathaiel P

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The name givin to Alaska to make fun of the president who bought it another name was ice box
@Alex VanHout

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It encouraged war for money for newspaper
@Ella Castellano

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Yellow Journalism is an example of news that has no well thought-out research put into it, and utilizes over exaggerated eye-catching titles to get sales.

@NathanN

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Isolationism is a big problem nowadays. People are cutting themselves from all interaction. We need to stop this problem.

@laurynugrich

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The rough riders were a group of people led by Teddy Roosevelt. They fought for America in the Spanish American war.

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The last thing we want right now is more fighting. Let’s have peace and generosity in these situations. Everyone deserves freedom.

@clare.schwake

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Taking other colonies for ourselves isn’t good, some of them just need to be independent, and sometimes we’d even overthrow them if they didn’t want to give themselves up to us.
@AydinAultman

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I’m glad the Rough Riders got to kick Spain right out of Cuba’s control! Although I thought they’d put up more of a fight...
@EthanRoup

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Hawaii is small but it’s still a state.
@NoraHyduke

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Hawaii more sugar and pine apples

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I’m glad we got Hawaii in 1959. Hawaii is a beautiful state. I think it’s one of the best.
@KAlsaker

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The Spanish American war was a war that was very close war that  we almost lost but we luckily won.
@KarstonL

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Believe in them Rough Riders!! They are fighting for us and Cuba!

@samanthabaratto

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Yellow journalists should go because they lied about stuff.
@Joselyn E.

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Stop the fake news
@Kailie

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William H. Seaward bought Alaska got for 7.2 million Dollars. Alaska got the nick name Seward’s Folly because people who called it that thought the purchase of Alaska was unwise. We got it in 1867. The Value of Alaska is Coal, Oil, Gold, and Lead.
@Britta Holmquist

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A policy that protects America
@Will

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Rough Riders protect America and help fought in the Spanish American war and are great heroes. @Jayce Sutherland

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For like some reason the Phillipines hate us like all we did was break into your country we’re just trying to protect y’all @Preston Travica

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When our brothers and sisters from across the pond try to invade our bedroom it’s time to call mom and dad.

@lillyt

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Alaska was proven valuable in gold and defense.

@Noah Salisbury

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Alaska (AKA) Seward’s Folly is the largest state of the U.S. It cost 7.2 million and had a lot of value like land, coal, oil, and gold.
@Henry Brown

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Seward was a state senator that got Alaska. Everyone thought it was a bad it turns out 100it was better to have more land and resources.
@karlie d

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We can get faster trade and travel in the Panama Canal sure it costs a lot of money to build but it will be worth the 10 million dollars @Samantha N

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Rough Riders protect America and help fought in the Spanish American war and are great heroes.

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Spain is treating Cuba horribly!! They need our help!!

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The Panama Canal helped people travel way faster. Instead of going around the country you went thru it. It costed 10million dollars, I would think it was worth it.
@David Wohlers

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Imperialism is so good! We are getting land and resources. Why are people hating on this?
@Ethan Bignall

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1st United States Cavalry, one of three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish–American War @riccor

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Alaska has many resources such as, oils, coal, lumber, and lots

of settlement land for us to utilize.@adaj

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#StopYellowJournalism

Yellow Journalism is bad. It’s exaggerated stories about things for journalists to make money, and it causes bad things to happen like wars. @Sawyer Beck

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Hawaii is now our main naval base in the Pacific Ocean. Also Hawaii is giving the U.S. lots of sugar cane. @lindseyr