Ch.6 Fifteen Important Things

1. Warren G. Harding was very unhappy with his job as president and had many scandals.
2. President Harding liked Alaska very much and had visited the state in 1923, he promised that his administration would help in developing the state, but died in San Francisco on his way back to Washington. 
3. In 1889 congress passed a law forbidding damming as a method of fishing in order to allow the salmon to spawn. 
4. In the 1990's many scientists believed that the artificial propagation or salmon was the answer to Alaska's problems. 
5. Local fisheries preferred federal instead of local regulations, because they were able to convince people in Washington, who were poorly informed on the topic, that they had good intentions.   
6. In the late 1910's a spokesman for the packers revealed that over fishing is taking place and they need to take action.
7. An executive order was given by president Hoover which required permits in order to fish. This was a way to reduce the over fishing in Alaska.
8. Because of the law requiring permits only employees of large companies were able to get permits because they would buy them all.
9. The rail road in Alaska was very expensive to build and was very inefficient. 
10. The rail road got it's first profitable year 1938 fifteen years after it opened. 
11. In the 1920's the air age had started in Alaska which was faster and more adaptable then any other method of transportation. 
12. In 1929 navy pilots mapped 10,000 miles of Alaskan territory.
13. Before World War II there were 116 times as many planes and carried 48 times as much mail than the U.S. on a per capita basis.
14. Since Alaska was a territory it didn't reap the same rewards as the rest of America during the 1920's. this turned around in the 1930's during the great depression, when the nation was at one of its poorest points Alaska wasn't affected as harshly. 
15. In the 1930's many Americans thought that they would move to Alaska to get away from their economic troubles because of the abundance of moose, caribou, salmon, and land just waiting to be taken advantage of.