Asked this question for like million times...its about alaska boundary dispute?

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if u want to know about the alaska boundary dispute click on the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_boun...

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as an american, why do u think the land america was fighting for in the dispute should belong to america? plz give serious answers!

i visited all sites and i couldnt get an answer

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'  "...the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland Channel as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude; from this last-mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude."

The main legal points at issue were which coastal range should be chosen as the basis of the boundary and whether the "ten marine leagues" (or 30 nautical miles) should be measured from the heads of the fjords or from a baseline which would cut across the mouths of the fjords.  '

So basically it was a dispute over where the boundary should be measured from as described in 1825.  It was never a big enough cause for contraversy until the yukon gold rush because it was a largely unpopulated area and it would have been very expensive to survey.