It became a Russian Colony ordered to bring Christianity to the Native Americans and a fur trading center.
The United States wanted to keep Europeans off American soil. The Russians had been as far south as California.
The United States wanted to purchase Alaska to keep Europeans off the western border.
NO! Hawaii was founded later than Alaska.
The year it was founded.
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Hawaii was founded on August 20th, 1959. Alaska was founded on January 3, 1959.
Anchorage was founded in 1914 as the headquarters of the Alaska Railroad running north to Fairbanks. A railway link with Seward was finished in 1918, and five years later the entire Alaska Railroad was completed.
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Alaska Airlines was founded in 1932. It was originally named McGee Airways having been founded by Linious "Mac McGee". The name was changed to Alaska Airlines in 1944.
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In 1958 Congress passes Alaska Statehood Act conveying ownership of 104 million acres and in 1959 Alaska is admitted to the Union as the 49th state, and William A. Egan becomes Alaska's first governor.
Of course. The land we call "Alaska" was there when he sailed. He didn't get to North American he only got to the area around Cuba and the Russians founded colonies in Alaska. We bought from them.
ALASKA
Alaska was discovered in 1728 by Vitus Bering. He established a settlement in 1741. It was purchased from Russia in 1868 and was made a US Territory in 1912. It became a US State in 1959.