Purchase of Alaska Summary

 Purchase of Alaska Summary:

    The purchase of Alaska was thought to be problem to America, since Americans thought it was just a “block of ice,” but they were wrong since it gave us raw material like, timber, minerals, and oil. The cartoonist’s message is Steward adopting Alaska and Russia’s ruler giving Steward Alaska. I can tell by how Steward is carrying Alaska on a carriage that is given from Russia’s ruler and on the carriage there is a title that says treaty. As you can see the issue is “Steward’s Icebox” being carried by a treaty that explains that Steward gave Russia $7.2 million. I can support this by how in the background there is a bag of money which was traded for Alaska. Other peoples’ opinion was that they would be disappointed about how Steward spent 7.2 million dollars for Alaska, which Americans thought it was just an iceberg, but they were wrong; it had raw materials such as timber, mineral and plentiful oil. One of the techniques the cartoonist is labeling. He/she used it on the carriage as a treaty, the other was the block of ice since Alaska was mostly covered in ice and snow, last is on the background you may not be able to see the numbers but it is the cost of Alaska. The other technique is symbolism that is used in the political cartoon. The evidence is the carriage used to support the deal to sell and give Alaska to America, the ice in the carriage is called Russian America which is Alaska, and the bag of money in the background as the deal and money Russia earned. It shows American-Imperialism by how we have not involved ourselves, but just bought a land which was on sale. Alaska was bought and everyone stopped criticizing Steward for the useless land, which was actually useful and was now a big land filled with the most important tools for industries, economy, and citizens.

Purchase of Alaska MLA:

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