AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
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It was too expensive.
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It was too far away.
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It was seen as worthless.
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It was seen as too cold.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The ongoing controversy over Reconstruction spread to other acts, such as the Alaska purchase. Some opposed the United States obtaining its first non-contiguous territory, seeing it as a colony; others saw no need to pay for land that they expected the country to obtain through manifest destiny.
Detailed explanation-2: -Critics of the deal to purchase Alaska called it “Seward’s Folly” or “Seward’s Icebox.” Opposition to the purchase of Alaska subsided with the Klondike Gold Strike in 1896.
Detailed explanation-3: -However, the American public believed the land to be barren and worthless and dubbed the purchase “Seward’s Folly” and “Andrew Johnson’s Polar Bear Garden, ” among other derogatory names. Some animosity toward the project may have been a byproduct of President Johnson’s own unpopularity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Though mocked by some at the time, the 1867 purchase of Alaska came to be regarded as a masterful deal. The treaty enlarged the United States by 586, 000 square miles, an area more than twice the size of Texas, all for the bargain price of around two cents an acre.