Alaska Purchase is the correct name, but to Seward's opponents in was called Seward's Folly.
The purchase of Alaska was referred to as Seward's Folly. (Seward, Alaska is named after him.)
Sewards Folly
"Seward's Icebox."
In 1867 from Russia for 7.2 million dollars.
It was 7.2 million dollars or about 111 million in 2010 dollars.
Yes it would be about 111 million in 2010 dollars.
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.
No. The United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867.
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."
Because most Americans considered it to have been a waste of money.
7.2 million dollars, or two cents per acre
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.
They called it Seward's Folly. For many Americans it was deemed a waste of money.
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.
The state of Alaska was the Alaskan purchase