Thomas Elkins was an African American inventor from Albany, New York. It is not clear when he died but he was born in the 1800s.
Holland (New York, named after the Duke of York was originally named New Amsterdam after Amsterdam, Holland) Spain - laid claim to parts of what is now California & Florida Great Brittain - The original 13 colonies were all Brittish Germany - large parts of what is now Pennsylvania If you're talking about "North America" you can add France, whose influence in Quebec, Canada is obvious. Russia originally owned Alaska, until they sold it to the U.S. (It was a deal consummated by the secretary of state whose name was Seward and it was called Sewards Folly because everyone thought it was worthless, until not only Gold but Oil was discovered there.)
He didn't sale anything to the US, he made a purchase, which at the time was called 'Sewards Folly'. Seward was a Presidential hopeful before the US Civil War, and became Lincoln's secretary of state, for the duration of the war. He as well as Linclon, the Vice President, Andrew Johnson (who succeeded Lincoln, and was later impeached), were also targets of John Wilkes Boothe's & C.'s assassination plot in which Lincoln was shot at Ford's theatre 14 April 1865. Seward served as secretary of state for Johnson, and in 1867 purchased the entire geographic region, which was to become the 49th state of the union, Alaska, from Russia for $7.2 million ($119 million in 2014 $'s)
There were a very large group of sceptics that believed that the purchase of Alaska was a blunder. They called it Sewards Folly and Johnson's Icebox.
Alaska Purchase is the correct name, but to Seward's opponents in was called Seward's Folly.
An icebox is not a food.
Sewards Folly was bought from Russia in the 1940s and is now the great big state of Alaska.
An icebox is the old name for refrigerator.
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Sewards Folly
"You have eaten the plums that were in the icebox." is a complete sentence. The sentence is stating a concrete act. There are two concrete nouns in the sentence: plums and icebox.
One can get a good icebox from any Walmart store. They have a number of good icebox items for sale from $30 to over $100. One can also purchase them from Target.
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Ice can melt in the icebox because the temperature is not cold enough. The icebox may have a leak through a door. The ice can be too close to the drafty air.