Purchase of Alaska

The political cartoons are about the Purchase of Alaska with Russia. The U.S. made a treaty with Russia. If we got Alaska, they would get money in return. The message of these political cartoons are that people thought Alaska was just a big chunk of ice and didn't have any value to it. Although that is what it seemed like, it wasn't. I think a different person would absolutely think what the people thought. Although, if they were into politics and what Alaska granted us, they would think differently. The cartoonist used irony because in the image to the left, two men are carrying an iceberg in a wheel barrow. In the image on the right, they used irony because President Andrew Johnson is talking to a polar bear. The cartoonist also used labeling because in the image to your left, on the iceberg, it says Russian America. The wheel barrow that is carrying it says treaty. On the image to you right, in the more upper back it says vote, polling place snow county, and ursus the bears candidate. These political cartoons support my position on imperialism because it adds more territory to the U.S. It also expands the U.S. in many ways.