•This political cartoon is about the purchase of Alaska. The purchase of Alaska is when America bought Alaska from Russia and people thought it was a waste of money. The issue of this political cartoon is that people viewed Alaska differently. They thought it was a waste of money. In the cartoon it looked like they were taking a block of ice to America. That is how people in America viewed Alaska. A strategy that the cartoonist used is labeling. They labeled the block of ice as Alaska and the wagon that was carrying the block of ice as treaty. There was also symbolism. The block of ice symbolized Alaska and how they were taking it from Russia.