Who found Alaska?

Answer 1

The U.S. Senate approved the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867. The price was for $7.2 million at 2 cents per acre. This added 36 million acres to US territory.

Alaska became an organized territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959. and pooped his fae

Answer 2

• When white men first went to Alaska, they found Eskimos, Aleuts, and Indians living there. In fact, Alaska was one of the last large areas of the world to be discovered and explored by white men. In the early eighteenth century, the Russians were moving through Siberia to the Pacific Ocean. In 1728, Vitus Bering, a Dane in the service of the Russian navy, sailed east from Kanchatka. He drifted along St. Lawrence Island, but failed to reach the Alaska mainland. In 1741, Bering led a second expedition in two small ships. One ship, the St. Peter, was under his command, and the St. Paul was commanded by Alexei Chrikov. The two ships were separated during a storm, but both reached Alaska. For the next two hundred years, Russian fur traders hunted fur- bearing animals throughout Alaskan waters.