-HN+Recon+Geographical

-Purchase of Alaska- Russia, without funds to support a settlement and suffering defeat in the Crimean War, had given up on controlling Alaska and offered the land to the United States in 1859; though the Civil War prevented the sale at the time, on March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska for $7.2 million. Due to its lack of obvious resources, critics dubbed the purchase "Seward's Folly;" however, the naysayers were proved wrong when when large amounts of gold were discovered in 1896. Alaska did not become a state until January 3, 1959. -African-American Exodus from the South to the North- -Omnibus Act 1868- Subsequent to the reintroduction of Arkansas to the Union, the Ominbus Act of 1868 readmitted the Confederate states of Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Alabama to the Union, giving them full representation in Congress and ended military governments in them. The act stated that these states had complied with the Military Reconstruction Act, but also had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and to guarantee that African-American suffrage was protected. Virginia, Texas, and Mississippi were later admitted in 1870. -Transcontinental Railroad Completed- -Mass Movement Westward by both Blacks and Whites-