What year was Alaska bought?

Question

What year was Alaska bought?

Answer 1

1867- Seward's Folly

Everyone at the time thought the US was crazy to buy Alaska from the russians

Answer 2

1867.Russia was forced to sell Alaska because Russia lost a war.

Answer 3

1867 - United States purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million. For less than 2 cents an acre. Became a state in 1959.

Answer 4

Purchase:  William Henry Seward was secretary of state under President Abraham Lincoln when he began negotiating a deal for the United States to buy Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million--or 2 cents an acre.

The purchase agreement was signed by Seward on March, 30, 1867, and approved by the U.S. Senate May 27, 1867. President Andrew Johnson signed the final treaty the following day and the transfer was made Oct. 18, 1867, in Sitka. In 1917, the third Alaska Territorial Legislature created Seward's Day to mark the signing of the treaty. That same year, lawmakers also designated Oct. 18 "Alaska Day."

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