Скачать или смотреть Russia sold Alaska to the US in 1867 for $7.2 million

The Alaska Purchase was completed on October 18, 1867. It added nearly 600,000 square miles of territory to the United States for $7.2. Russia had a presence in North America, but few Russians ever settled. After the Crimean War, Tsar Alexander II explored selling Alaska. After the American Civil War ended, Secretary of State William Seward began negotiations with Eduard de Stoeckl for the Alaskan Purchase.

$7.2 million is $133 million in 2020 dollars – less than 40 cents an acre. It was perhaps the greatest achievement of Andrew Johnson, though Seward was a Lincoln appointee. Alaska is non-contiguous with the rest of the United States and is separated from Russia by just 55 miles at the narrowest point of the Bering Strait. A little more than 30 years after the sale, gold was discovered. In the early 20th century, oil drilling ramped up.

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