What is your opinion about William Seward's purchase of Alaska?
I'm doing a book report, so I thought I would ask all here than they thought. Just for a laugh, was wondering what others think. Note that is in 1800 and have no idea of what Alaska has to offer. Tell why you feel this way.
Today: Oil, Natural Gas, Gold (mostly mined 100 years ago), Copper, Zinc, Forestry, strategic airspace Satellite / location tracking radar, gorgeous scenery, lots of bugs. Then (the majority): Cold, Seward's icebox, "some native and rare animals, untamed wilderness where it was not a good thing, just finished the Civil War and ready for more obligations, there is a shortage of land between the state and the Pacific Ocean. Then (some visionaries) sale prices (Russia had succeeded in all skins they can and no one knew of oil or gold) and someone will buy it. Do we want Britain to the larger farms in North America (which supported Conference). France? Spain? Or Japan? It could serve as a buffer for foreign activities rather than a stepping stone in situ (in Russian Alaska was While in California, Fort Ross). Editted to add: Someone said that Alaska has few mineral resources on the coast. I disagree. Name, Juneau and Hope were all gold fields right into the salt water. Nome and Juneau be very important deposits. I'll grant you that the Russians could reach the technologically huge oil reserves North Slope of Alaska or even within Cook Inlet (in the traveling). Nor do they understand the future value of the very high uranium deposit in the southern end of Prince of Wales Island. And everyone who passed through Alaska coastal desposits account of low-grade coal - chunks of lava on my beach all the time. But everybody better that coal close to home. The Russians even had a bubbling agent around the Kenai Peninsula in 1850 and found many traces of gold in lots of streams. He never spotted one of the sites of origin. It took hundreds of gold seekers, erica 1900, to stumble on that is just rich. But resources were there, the Russians simply do not make the effort. Once the skins are playing, they left.
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