When secretary william h. seward purchased alaska in 1867, newspapers ridiculed him. what 1898 event changed americans’ minds about alaska being called “seward’s ice box” and “icebergia”?
a. the drilling of an oil gusher
b. a trade treaty with russia
c. the discovery of gold
d. an expedition to the north pole

Which of following most accurately describes china today?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is

The rise of advertising in the 1920s. i am good with seeing how advertisements shape the roaring twenties and how it developed a new way of life through modern days. but i am not sure what the details of advertising in the 1920s were. if possible can you send me links (preferrably credential links) to sources that maybe show like the first company to start advertising through the radio, how advertising benefits (statistics graphs), etc.