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Russia owned what is now Alaska, the 49th state of the US. Many of Seward's critics mocked the purchase. However, looking back it can be seen to have been a wise purchase by Seward.

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The Alaska Purchase was the acquisition of Alaska by the United States from the Russian Empire in the year 1867 by a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate and headed by William H. Seward.

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