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See also fur trade. Further reading: Claus-M. Naske and Herman Slotnick, Alaska: A History of the 49th State (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979); S. : Duke University Press, 1987); Alan Taylor, American Colonies (New York: Penguin, 2001). Albany Congress (1754) The Albany Congress was a meeting of representatives of seven colonies held in Albany, New York, to propose a form of union under the British government that is sometimes held as a precedent for the Stamp Act Congress (1765), First Continental Congress (1774), Second Continental Congress (1775), and the formation of the United States.
Although Adams continued to articulate a vision of a strong and united nation, his presidency, undermined in part by the nature of his election, was a failure, and he was defeated by Jackson in 1828. Adams was 62 years old when he left the White House in 1829. Rather than retire, he represented his local Massachusetts constituency in Congress from 1830 until his death in 1848. During this period Adams emerged as an articulate and forceful opponent of slavery. ” Adams died in the House of Representatives on February 23, 1848.
Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov, who headed the largest fur company trading in Alaska, established the first permanent Russian settlement in North America on Kodiak Island in 1784. In 1797, Shelikhov’s son-in-law, Nikilay Petrovich Rezanov, consolidated all the fur-trading companies operating in Alaska, and in 1799 he obtained an imperial charter for the Russian American Fur Company, modeled after the British East India Company. Rezanov visited Alaska in 1805–06 and traveled to California to establish trade contacts with the Spanish.