Alaska

Examples of Alaska in the following topics:

• Reaction to the Holocaust

  • Ickes proposed the use of Alaska as a "haven for Jewish refugees from Germany and other areas in Europe where the Jews are subjected to oppressive restrictions. " Resettlement in Alaska would allow the refugees to bypass normal immigration quotas, because Alaska was a territory and not a state.
  • That summer Ickes had toured Alaska and met with local officials to discuss improving the local economy and bolstering security in a territory viewed as vulnerable to Japanese attack.
  • In his proposal, Ickes pointed out that 200 families from the dustbowl had settled in Alaska's Matanuska Valley.
  • The Alaska proposal won the support of theologian Paul Tillich, the Federal Council of Churches and the American Friends Service Committee.
  • Roosevelt never mentioned the Alaska proposal in public, and without his support the plan died.

• African and Asian Origins

  • Though migrants from northeastern Asia could have walked to Alaska with relative ease when Beringia was above sea level, traveling south from Alaska to the rest of North America may have posed significant challenges.
  • One theory suggests people in boats followed the coastline from the Kuril Islands to Alaska, and then down the coasts of North and South America as far as Chile .
  • One theory suggests that Southeast Asians followed the coast lines from the Kuril Islands to Alaska.

• Ballinger and Pinchot

  • Glavis met with the president at Taft's summer retreat in Beverly, Massachusetts, and presented him with a 50-page report accusing Ballinger of an improper interest in his handling of coal field claims in Alaska.
  • In 1907, Cunningham had partnered with the Morgan-Guggenheim "Alaska Syndicate" to develop coal interests in Alaska.

• Smallpox

  • By its end, the smallpox epidemic had reached as far west as the Pacific Coast and as far north as Alaska, infecting virtually every part of the vast continent of North America.

• Indian Resistance and Survival

  • Census Bureau estimated that about 0.8% of the U.S. population was of American Indian or Alaska Native descent.

• Settlement of the New Land

  • Alaska was added to the United States in 1867 as part of a land deal with the Russian Empire.

• Energy and Environmental Reform

  • On December 2, 1980, he signed into law Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act.
  • In all, the act provided for the designation of 79.53 million acres (124,281 square miles; 321,900 km²) of public lands, fully a third of which was set aside as wilderness area in Alaska.

• Land Policy

  • The United States agreed to the Alaska Purchase from the Russian Empire for $7,200,000 (2 cents per acre), on March 30, 1867 in order to create a vital refueling station for ships trading with Asia.

• Early Lifestyles

  • However, the traditional theory has been that these early migrants moved into the Beringia land bridge between eastern Siberia and present-day Alaska around 40,000–17,000 years ago, when sea levels were significantly lowered due to the Quaternary glaciation. 
  • Sites in Alaska (East Beringia) are where some of the earliest evidence has been found of Paleo-Indians, followed by archaeological sites in northern British Columbia, western Alberta, and the Old Crow Flats region in the Yukon.

• Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election

  • Navy warship to pick up his Scottish Terrier Fala in Alaska, noting that "Fala was furious" at such rumors.