Vice President Mike
Banned
Security of state steward wanted an American empire. But he only naught Alaska. What if he got all the land he wanted.
Alaska and British Columbia ...Seward argued for acquiring places such as British Columbia, the Danish West Indies, the Samaná Peninsula of the Dominican Republic, Panama, and the Hawaiian Islands, and succeeded in annexing the Brook Islands (now called the Midway Islands) in 1867.
Despite minimal Congressional support, he developed American influence in the Hawaiian Islands,...
The United States eventually annexed the Danish West Indies (now the US Virgin Islands), and the Hawaiian islands