A history of the United States for Catholic schools . messages andceased to work after threeweeks of service. His secondattempt (1865) also failed,the cable parting in mid-ocean. With the help of thesteamship Great Eastern heeventually (1866) laid asuccessful cable. 594. A New State —ThePurchase of Alaska. DuringJohnsons administration,Nebraska was admitted(1867), over the Presidentsveto, as the thirty-seventhstate, just in time to takepart in the presidential elec-tion of 1868. Through the diplomacy of Secretary Seward, the UnitedStates (1867) concluded a treaty with the Russian governmentby
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . messages andceased to work after threeweeks of service. His secondattempt (1865) also failed,the cable parting in mid-ocean. With the help of thesteamship Great Eastern heeventually (1866) laid asuccessful cable. 594. A New State —ThePurchase of Alaska. DuringJohnsons administration,Nebraska was admitted(1867), over the Presidentsveto, as the thirty-seventhstate, just in time to takepart in the presidential elec-tion of 1868. Through the diplomacy of Secretary Seward, the UnitedStates (1867) concluded a treaty with the Russian governmentby which it secured possession of the vast territory of Alaska(over five hundred and ninety thousand square miles) for$7,200,000. By this purchase another European power wasremoved from the American continent. The carrying out ofthe Monroe Doctrine was thus rendered easier. From the timeof its discovery and exploration by Russians under VitusBering (1728-1741) until it was ceded to the United States,Alaska had been known as Russian-America. Secretary. ALASKAN TRADING POST 474 A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES Seward was loudly denounced for paying so great a sum ofmoney for what was believed to be only a large field of then, however, Alaska has come to be known as wonder-fully rich in minerals, forests, fisheries, and furs. 595. The Burlingame Treaty. By the influence of AnsonBurlingame, our minister to China, the first embassy ever sentfrom that empire to any foreign power arrived in the UnitedStates. The result was a treaty between China and the Amer-ican Eepublie which promised security of life, liberty, andproperty to the people of either nation while in the territoryof the other. 596. Reconstruction Is the Issue of the Campaign of all the Confederate states except three—Virginia,Mississippi, and Texas—had been reconstructed, and theirrepresentatives had taken their places in Congress, manyDemocrats denounced the reconstruction work of Congress
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