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The looming U.S. Civil War delayed the sale, but after the war, Secretary of State William Seward quickly took up a renewed Russian offer and on March 30, 1867, agreed to a proposal from Russian Minister in Washington, Edouard de Stoeckl, to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million.
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A series of rebellions during the 19th century failed to end Spanish rule.
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Yellowstone National Park is a national park located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, although it also extends into Montana and Idaho.
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The women's suffrage movement was the struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the overall women's rights movement.
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The United States declared war against Spain following the sinking of the Battleship Maine in the Havana harbor
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The last monarch of Hawaii, Queen Liliuokalani, was overthrown by party of businessmen, who then imposed a provisional government. Soon after, President Benjamin Harrison submitted a treaty to annex theHawaiian islands to the U.S. Senate for ratification.
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He became president when William McKinley was assassinated.
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A man-made 48-mile waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.
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Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.
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President Theodore Roosevelt signs the Pure Food and Drug Act as well as the Meat Inspection Act.
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Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt, honoring a promise not to seek a third term, persuaded the Republican Party to nominate William Howard Taft, his close friend and Secretary of War, to become his successor.
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NAACP is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States
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A Democrat, Wilson was elected to the US presidency in 1912 after having served as president of his alma mater Princeton University and as Governor of New Jersey.
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Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
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Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages
