Secretary of State William Seward.
Alaska was bought from Russia.
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No it did not.
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About 424,491,520 acres.
Hawaii became a state in 1959, but the US was interested in it for many years before that. Alaska joined the US in 1959. Many Americans thought that it was dumb to buy such barren wasteland from Russia in 1867 , but we did buy it at an extremely low price.
It was for sale and the US wanted Russia out of the Americas.
Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia.
Alaska was purchased by the United States from Russia.
Alaska, at about 2 cents per acre, snow thrown in for free.
Alaska has the highest male to female gender ratio of any of the states in the US. In 2000, the ratio was 107.0.
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