[DOC] [TLE] Seward's Folly - Mar 30, 1867 - HISTORY.com [PAR] U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska for $7 million.
 Despite the bargain price of roughly two cents an acre, the Alaskan purchase was ridiculed in Congress and in the press as Sewards folly, Sewards icebox ... [DOC] [TLE] Purchase of Alaska, 1867 - Office of the Historian [PAR] Skeptics had dubbed the purchase of Alaska Seward's Folly, but the former ... 
was discovered in the Yukon in 1896, and Alaska became the gateway to the... [DOC] [TLE] Seward's Icebox: On this date in 1867 ... - Alaska Dispatch News [PAR] Mar 30, 2012 ... Seward's Day was officially observed in Alaska on Monday, but today, ... as "
Seward's Folly," "Seward's Icebox" and the seldom-heard epithet "Polar Bear 
Garden. ... the U.S. Treasury into gold at Riggs Bank in Washington D.C. on Aug. 
... Gold was discovered in Alaska in 1896, bringing a population boom,... [DOC] [TLE] Off to the Klondike! | American History Lives at American Heritage [PAR] For years the whole negotiation was labelled Seward's Folly, and it was not until 
gold ... The, first gold strike was made in 1896 on the Klondike, River, a tributary 
of the .... desks, newsboys hawked papers that detailed the good fortune of the 
sixty-eight ... The traditional way into the interior of Alaska and the Yukon was the
... [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about AMERICANA - StudyStack [PAR] THE DISCOVERY OF THIS IN 1896 TURNED SEWARD'S FOLLY INTO 
SEWARD'S GOOD FORTUNE, GOLD. THE 1866 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT WAS 
PASSED... [DOC] [TLE] Petition for Alaska to leave US and become part of RUSSIA signed ... [PAR] Mar 27, 2014 ... Charlotte mayor arrested just 6 months into the job for. ... FROM SEWARD'S 
FOLLY TO MODERN ALASKA ... Then during the Klondike gold strike in 1896 it 
was discovered that the land was rich in .... 'I'm looking for a good face wash': 
Ruby Rose pokes fun at herself on social ... Sperm banking a fortune! [DOC] [TLE] Alaska, Land of Opportunity--Limited - JStor [PAR] the Territory's future into more prac- tical channels. ... referred to as "Seward's 
folly" and as "an ice-box." Then, in 1896, a discovery of rich placer deposits in the 
.... Turning next to Alaska's great store ... present Alaskan farmer's good fortune. [DOC] [TLE] Alaska - Facts for Now - Scholastic [PAR] Soon tens of thousands of gold rushers swarmed into Alaska. They hoped to ... 
Another turning point was the discovery of oil in Prudhoe Bay in 1968. Since then 
..... Perhaps Alaska's best-known transportation system is the 800-mile (1,287-
kilometer) Trans-Alaska Pipeline. .... Seward's Folly soon turned to fortune. In 
1880... [DOC] [TLE] Blinded by Riches: The Permanent Funding Problem and the ... [PAR] Seward's Folly and the Roots of the Permanent Funding Problem. 25 .... It was a 
most appropriate analogy for a state heading blind into the ... twenty years Alaska 
has seen its fortunes rise and fall with crude oil prices, as the state ..... probably 
the best investment ever made by the federal government, turning $7.2 million 
into... [DOC] [TLE] View Sample Lesson in Word Format - Hadley School for the Blind [PAR] For instance, if you're interested in the discovery of America, the first course 
would be a .... Seward also believed that a strong United States outpost on the 
other side of ..... Why turn the United States into an enemy over a petty border 
dispute? ... Senator Beveridge stated that an American empire would be good for 
both... [DOC] [TLE] Alaskan Development: CQR [PAR] Dec 17, 1976 ... When oil was discovered on the North Slope in 1968, the state sold oil and .... 
magazine: Thrusting the loosely organized Alaskan natives into the ... But to the 
surprise of many, the native corporations have turned out to .... Seward had 
coveted the vast Alaskan territory for several years, and ..... 18961900. [DOC]

Question: The discovery of this in 1896 turned Seward's Folly into Seward's Good Fortune
Answer: gold