https://padlet.com/125616/superman Kieren the Smith en-us 2018-03-08 17:39:27 UTC 2024-06-29 23:18:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png 125616 https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/239808885 -Russians wanted Alaska for its resources but couldn’t support a military presence or permanent settlement in it
-They offered it to the United States for about $7,200,000, which was accepted by William Seward

("Purchase of Alaska")]]> 2018-03-08 17:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/239808885 125616 https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/239810856 -The Alaskan purchase was sometimes called “Seward’s Folly” or “Seward’s Icebox” for the 3 decades following its purchase
 -The pro-Seward side of the debate saw it as a step toward Canada’s annexation
-A large gold deposit was discovered in 1896, which helped the US realize Alaska’s value
-Alaska was also strategically important, as shown in the Second World War

("Purchase of Alaska")]]> 2018-03-08 17:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/239810856 125616 https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/239814441 "Purchase of Alaska, 1867." Office of the Historian, US Department of State, history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/alaska-purchase. Accessed 8 Mar. 2018

"Alaska Purchase." Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 July 2014, www.britannica.com/event/Alaska-Purchase.

"William H. Seward." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 24 Feb. 2018,
     en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Seward?scrlybrkr=eea7093a. Accessed 13
     Mar. 2018.

"Purchase of Alaska." YouTube, uploaded by US Money Reserve, 18 Oct. 2017, 
     m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm81qPyLYTo&scrlybrkr=2e179924. ]]> 2018-03-08 18:02:20 UTC https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/239814441 125616 https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/241494746 -Alaska was accepted into statehood (as the 49th state) in 1959
-Alaska was governed by a military presence until 1877, then it was governed briefly by the treasury and then by military authorities
-A civil government was introduced to Alaska in 1884

(“Alaska Purchase”)]]> 2018-03-13 16:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/241494746 125616 https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/241501754 -Was the Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869
-Was a senator from 1849 to when he was accepted into Secretary of State-hood
-Was the governor of New York from 1839 to 1842
-Died on October 10th, 1872

-Originally offered 5 million dollars for Alaska, then 7 million dollars, then the final price of 7.2 million dollars

(“William H. Seward”)

]]> 2018-03-13 16:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/241501754 125616 https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/241509091 -The Civil War got in the way of the purchase of Alaska, since it postponed negotiations until 1866
-Alaska was probably offered because of the debt accumulated during the Crimean War (in Russia)]]> 2018-03-13 17:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/241509091 125616 https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/241978262 2018-03-14 16:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/125616/superman/wish/241978262