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What was the purchase of Alaska for 7200000 dollars called by Americans?
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What year was Alaska sold to the us?
In 1867 from Russia for 7.2 million dollars.
What was the purchase price of Alaska?
It was 7.2 million dollars or about 111 million in 2010 dollars.
The purchase of Alaska was over 7 milllion dollars that was a valuble purchase?
Yes it would be about 111 million in 2010 dollars.
How many millions of dollars was Alaska purchased for?
It cost the US $7,200.000 to purchase Alaska which amounts to about $111,000,000 in 2010 dollars to get Russia out of North America.
What year was the Alaska purchase?
No. The United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867.
When was Alaska purchased by the US?
The United States purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867. The cost of the purchase was 7.2 million US dollars. The purchase was known as "Seward's Folly."
Why was Alaska's purchase called Seward?
Because most Americans considered it to have been a waste of money.
How much was Alaska bought for by the Americans from the Russians?
7.2 million dollars, or two cents per acre
When was Alaska Purchased from Russia?
Alaska was purchased from Russia by the US in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars. It was originally offered to the United States in 1859, but the purchase was delayed by the US Civil War. The territory of Alaska became a US state in 1959.
How did opponents refer to the purchase of Alaska?
They called it Seward's Folly. For many Americans it was deemed a waste of money.
How did Americans respond after US bought Alaska?
There were a very large group of sceptics that believed that the purchase of Alaska was a blunder. They called it Sewards Folly and Johnson's Icebox.
Where was the location of the Alaska Purchase?
The state of Alaska was the Alaskan purchase
