Purchase of Alaska by Brenden Smith https://padlet.com/124681/pqwkzrcmsg4s Brenden Smith en-us 2018-03-13 12:55:06 UTC 2024-07-14 18:31:48 UTC hello@padlet.com When it was purchased 124681 https://padlet.com/124681/pqwkzrcmsg4s/wish/241339526
  • March 30, 1867
  • Bought for $7.2 million
  • Considered a bad idea
  • (“Purchase of Alaska”)
  • (Alaska, glacier)
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  • Increased American teritory by 20%
  • Gold was found in Alaska in 1880-1890
  • (“Purchase of Alaska”)
    • ]]>     2018-03-13 13:08:29 UTC https://padlet.com/124681/pqwkzrcmsg4s/wish/241340868     William Seward 124681 https://padlet.com/124681/pqwkzrcmsg4s/wish/241348553
  • Born May 16, 1801
  • Died October 10, 1872
  • Secretary of State 
  • Made the purchase of Alaska happen
  • (“William H. Seaward”)
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  • Alaska was twice the size of Texas
  • Bought for 2 cents an acre 
  • (“The Alaska”)
  • (“Purchase of Alaska”)
  • (USA Alaska)

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  • Russia was hunting seal in Alaska
  • The seal population depleted and there was nothing else there that the Russians knew about so they sold it to pay for there war with Britain 
  • (“Purchase of Alaska”)
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  • People believed that it was a bad idea to buy Alaska
  • They believed that it was a cold waistland and called it the Ice box and other names
  • (“Purchase of Alaska”)
    • ]]>     2018-03-14 13:10:49 UTC https://padlet.com/124681/pqwkzrcmsg4s/wish/241848227     Video 124681 https://padlet.com/124681/pqwkzrcmsg4s/wish/241852281 (“The Alaska”)]]> 2018-03-14 13:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/124681/pqwkzrcmsg4s/wish/241852281 Citations 124681 https://padlet.com/124681/pqwkzrcmsg4s/wish/242317614 Alaska, glacier, ice, snow, sky. Pixel bay. Accessed 14 Mar. 2018.
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    Portrait of William H. Seward, Secretary of State 1861-69. Wikipedia, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William_H._Seward_portrait_-_restoration.jpg?scrlybrkr=c4e688b4. Accessed 13 Mar. 2018.
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