Alaska Purchase
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The Alaska Purchase occurred in in 1867 and resulted in the transfer of Russian America to the United States for a sum of $7.2 million. On April 9 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bil
The US$7.2 million check used to pay for Alaska (equivalent to $132 million in 2024)
Portrait of William H. Seward, 24th Secretary of State for the United States under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
Signing of the Alaska Treaty (1867)
Final page. Signature of Emperor Alexander II, countersignature by Vice-Chancellor Prince Alexander M. Gorchakov
Alaska
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Alaska is a U.S. state located in the northwestern regions of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is cons
Alaska Purchase
…the Department of Alaska, the area was renamed the District of Alaska in 1884 and the Territory of Alaska in 1912, ultimately becoming the modern-day state of Alaska in 1959. Russian America was settled by promyshlenniki, merchants and fur trappers who expanded through Siberia. They arrived in Alaska in 1732, and…
The Russian settlement of St. Paul's Harbor, present-day Kodiak town, Kodiak Island, 1814
Miners and prospectors climb the Chilkoot Trail during the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush.
U.S. troops navigate snow and ice during the Battle of Attu in May 1943.