(A) Annexation of the Midway Islands in 1867.
(B) Negotiating trade relations with Japan in 1853.
(C) ** Purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867.
(D) investment in banana republics
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Concept note-1: -Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million. Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as “Seward’s Folly, ” “Seward’s icebox, ” and President Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.”
Concept note-2: -Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for 7.2 million dollars. Critics attacked Seward for the secrecy surrounding the deal, which came to be known as “Seward’s folly.” The press mocked his willingness to spend so much on “Seward’s icebox” and Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear garden.”
Concept note-3: -The Alaska Purchase (Russian: , romanized: Prodazha Alyaski, lit. ‘Sale of Alaska’) was the United States’ acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire. Alaska was formally transferred to the United States on October 18, 1867, through a treaty ratified by the United States Senate.
Concept note-4: -In 1867, the United States purchased Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million.
Concept note-5: -The acquisition of Alaska by the United States on March 30, 1867, was dubbed “Seward’s Folly” or ridiculed as “Seward’s Icebox” by critics at the time.