The United States Had Concluded A Devastating Civil War

Drilling in Alaska will not help stop the oil crisis. Many colonial Americans weren’t concerned about protecting natural resources because they thought they had a lot but they also knew that they needed to preserve the oil. Should the United States drill for oil in Alaska’s wilderness? America shouldn’t drill in Alaska because of the environment wilderness, protecting environment, and economics.

The Gadsden Purchase of 1853 is one of the most monumental land purchases in United States history. In basic terms, the Gadsden Purchase was an area of land that was acquired by the United States from Mexico in order to build a railway for the transportation of goods in the South from East to West in order to fulfill Manifest Destiny. Throughout this paper, I hope to accurately navigate through the events prior to the Gadsden Purchase as well as the early life of James Gadsden. Although many topics relate to the purchase itself, I will offer a historical view into Gadsden’s life before, after, and during the purchase as well as a more in depth look into the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. I shall also touch base on why the land was so

The first missionaries arrived to the Hawaiian Islands in 1820 and made a lot of changes to Hawaii when they arrived, both good and bad. When the missionaries arrived to the islands they thought of the natives as savages. They all needed to become converts to followers of Christ, drop their own beliefs and pick up new ones. They also sought out to “civilize” the natives, by teaching them how to read and write, sing and Christianize them. Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston were the first of many missionaries to arrive in Hawaii. The Queen at the time, Kaahumanu accepted the arrival of the missionaries from New England to teach their religion. Although there were many positive affects of missionary that came to the Hawaiian Islands, there

A Wilderness so Immense by John Kukla explores the events leading up to and the enduring effects of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Kukla begins his story almost twenty years before Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from France and analyzes how factors ranging from major revolutions to personal relationships all culminated to make the most famous land acquisition in American history possible. He argues that the Louisiana Purchase was not only a case a good luck on Jefferson’s part or solely the result of Napoleon’s failed caribbean ambitions, as some historians that came before him argued. Rather, Kukla explains that the roots of American expansionism are older than the republic itself. American politicians worked and made very

Alaska was officially made a state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959. Many people had forgotten the nickname Alaska once had as “Seward's Folly”; Finally, realizing the importance Alaska had on the United States. The Alaska purchase was proved to be the most important purchase ever transacted by the United States

2.) America’s Library. “Purchase of Alaska: March 30, 1867” America’s Stories. 9 July 2004. Web 16 Sept. 2010. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/recon/jb_recon_alaska_1.html

Frederick Douglass once said “What a change now greets us! The Government is aroused, the dead North is alive, and its divided people united…The cry now is for war, vigorous war, war to the bitter end, and war till the traitors are effectually and permanently put down” (Allen, 2005). In 1861, the start of the Civil War was needed by the Confederacy and the Union. Ever since the American Revolution and the birth of the United States, seventy-eight years earlier, there were many disagreements that began to tear apart the country. The main issues that were debated were state rights, unfair taxation, and slavery. Slavery was the main issue because it caused a separation between the north and the south. The north had mostly abolished slavery by this time because it became an industry driven economy, while the south was made up of plantations that grew crops. Almost half of the southern population was made up of slaves because about one-third of families owned slaves. The southern states wanted to break away to start their own establishment and we able to have slaves if they wanted. The Civil War began with the Battle of Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter is located in the Charleston, South Carolina harbor, three and a half miles from the shore. Many events occurred leading up to, during, and after the battle to mark it as an important part of the Civil War.

Christopher Ward, the agent sent from the president to make the offer to Gadsden, lied to Gadsden about the price and type of land that is out for sale for Gadsden and Santa Ana did not want to sell a large portion of Mexico to the United States. The president, Pierce, needed money in order to fund the armies against the rebellion so the president and Gadsden signed a treaty, saying that the U.S. would pay $15 million for a portion of New Mexico and the United States would avoid any raids on the Mexico border from happening from Native Americans.Railroads were constructed in these lands to connect Western territories with the East and North, increasing the ability to access land easier. The railroads were constructed to advance U.S. expansion

To map out this territory to for Jefferson’s “envisioned trade route across Western America to the Pacific Ocean,” he selected the explorer, Meriwether Lewis, to explore and bring back information about the new land. “For three years Lewis and Jefferson spent evenings discussing and planning the logistics and goals of an expedition. Those goals were multi-faceted, with both scientific and economic intentions.” Jefferson gave Lewis these instructions for the expedition: “The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, and such principal stream of it, as, by its course and communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, may offer the most direct and practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce." “Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take careful observations of latitude & longitude, at all remarkable points on the river, & especially at the mouths of rivers, at rapids, at islands, & other places & objects distinguished by such natural marks & characters of a durable kind." Also, Lewis was instructed by Jefferson “to try to establish positive relationships with the American Indians populating the region: ‘The commerce which may be carried on with the people inhabiting the line you will pursue, renders a knolege of those people important.’”3 [“The River of Lewis and Clark.”

In the 1820’s Missionaries have been starting to visit Hawaii inspired by Henry Obookiah who the first Hawaiian Missionary. Henry Obookiah was a Hawaiian missionary that told the English about the Hawaiian religion and how it works, and it convinced the English to go and spread their religion. But not everything ended well according to the plan for the Hawaiians. People only notice the negative effects that the missionaries cause the Hawaiians to go through, but they miss the benefits that the missionaries gave the Hawaiians. Although the missionaries have brought negative effects to the Hawaiians, they also have given the Hawaiians some benefits with the new religion, new language, and new technology.

On the day of October 18th, 1867, The United States takes formal possession of Alaska. The territory was purchased from Russia for 7.2 million dollars, which is less than two cents per acre. The purchased was championed by William Henry Seward, who served as President Andrew Johnson’s secretary at the time. Seward had negotiated the deal with the Russian Prime minister at the time, Eduard de Stoeckl. Russia had interests in selling the Alaskan territory, and decided that it was better to sell it, rather than lose it in a war. After the purchase had been final, it was named “Seward’s Folly.” Americans, at the time, believed that Alaska was a barren icy wasteland, so it was not the most popular of deals. It wasn’t until a year later, that Alaska Territory would be ratified. In 1896, Alaska had become more favorable, when the discovery of gold in its Klondike River had taken place. Alaska

“Gold” headlines read in 1887 at start of the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory. “The great gold rushes of the nineteenth century are certainly among the most dramatic episodes of American western history” (Morse 2003). Compared to the other gold rushes of the nineteenth century, the Klondike Gold Rush remains a vibrant part of U.S. history luring various famous people to the last frontier such as Jack London and Wyatt Earp. The discovery of gold in 1896 along the Klondike River prompted prospectors from across the United States and Canada travel to the Yukon. Upon arrival, the prospectors remained woefully ignorant to the trail’s hostile

Those early discoverers and researchers thought Alaska would remain in an unchangeable frozen state for hundreds of years. This meaning and belief of Alaska as a frontier is still quite prevalent today, with many America people still thinking of Alaska as the frontier that is almost untouched by civilization unlike the constant developments that the rest of the nation contains. The scenery in Bears solidifies what Alaska means to us, which for the individual is a part of the United States that while being very far away. Is a place where people can reconnect with nature, as being one of the last untamed wildernesses of America, and see through the Alaskan lens of what the frontier once

Alaska is the largest state in the entire United States of America, and has one of the largest economies. Despite this fact, it is also one of the least populated. This is perhaps due to the harsh, cold climate, the likes of which are not seen in the rest of the continental United States. Alaska, previously occupied by Russia, was purchased by the American government for the sum of 7.2 million US Dollars in 1867. It became an official state in the union on January 3rd 1959. (Hutchinson, Par. 24)

The Aleutian islands and the Alaskan peninsula is beautiful region, full of life and history. These diverse, volcanic lands are referred to as the tail of alaska. Everything from their history to their economy will be covered in this paper.