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The United States of America buy Alaska from the Russians at a price of 2 cents an acre. The final price was 2.7 million dollars. The reason it is sometimes called "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox" is because when Seward purchased it, Alaska looked like a big frozen block of ice until they found gold in the Klondike on August 16, 1896. It was also called Johnson's Polar Bear Garden.
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This act made Alaska a judicial district in addition to already being a civil district. Althiough Alaska could still not have any representatives in Washington D.C.
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Gold is found in large amounts at the Klondike in Alaska and it causes a gold rush called The Yukon Gold Rush among other names.
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Gold was discoverd in Alaska by Dawson Charlie, Shookum Jim Mason, and George Carmack. Not much gold was found after the first discovery, so this rush ended quickly.
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The Second Organic Act conferred territorial status to Alaska. Alaska was allowed to have an elected legislature of 8 senators and 16 house members.
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The Alaskans created a constitution for themselves so that they were able to govern themselves with help from the United States of America until they had been granted statehood.
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About 100 years ago the U.S. bought Alaska for 7.2 million dollars. When people started to move into Alaska in the late 1800's, the U.S. decided to make it a state after lots of consideration.
