Purchase of Alaska, 1867
The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region. Beginning in 1725, when Russian Czar Peter the Great dispatched Vitus Bering to explore the Alaskan coast, Russia had a keen interest in this region, which was rich in natural resources and lightly inhabited. As the United States expanded westward in the early 1800s, Americans soon found themselves in competition with Russian explorers and traders. St. Petersburg, however, lacked the financial resources to support major settlements or a military presence along the Pacific coast of North America and permanent Russian settlers in Alaska never numbered more than four hundred. Defeat in the Crimean War further reduced Russian interest in this region.


Signing of the Alaska Treaty, 1867
Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia’s greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain. The looming U.S. Civil War delayed the sale, but after the war, Secretary of State William Seward quickly took up a renewed Russian offer and on March 30, 1867, agreed to a proposal from Russian Minister in Washington, Edouard de Stoeckl, to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million. The Senate approved the treaty of purchase on April 9; President Andrew Johnson signed the treaty on May 28, and Alaska was formally transferred to the United States on October 18, 1867. This purchase ended Russia’s presence in North America and ensured U.S. access to the Pacific northern rim.

For three decades after its purchase the United States paid little attention to Alaska, which was governed under military, naval, or Treasury rule or, at times, no visible rule at all. Seeking a way to impose U.S. mining laws, the United States constituted a civil government in 1884. Skeptics had dubbed the purchase of Alaska “Seward’s Folly,” but the former Secretary of State was vindicated when a major gold deposit was discovered in the Yukon in 1896, and Alaska became the gateway to the Klondike gold fields. The strategic importance of Alaska was finally recognized in World War II. Alaska became a state on January 3, 1959.

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Interesting

Russia would be regretting by now....

I just don’t know what to learn from this thread.

Very educative. A mistake Russians will always regrets.

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God bless America

What there trying to say is if you have money buy land and keep with time you we gain the land you bought for 550k to 50m

Keep this in mind when you read America is offering to buy Greenland. Trumps offer was the second offer the United States has made to Denmark. They bought the virgin Islands from them but they dont seem interested in selling Greenland.

America invested wisely

143WaZoBia:
I just don’t know what to learn from this thread.

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That you should buy Alaska u will see gold inside it. I sell original one if u need 2 Alaska for the price of 1 just call my number.

America should come buy Nigeria even as low as 10k we will sale it

Deep

Andrew Johnson went through a lot when he bought the Great Land from Russia... Americans were quick to criticize him to have spend so much on getting a land where every space there was iced and snowed... I can remember them calling Alaska.."Andrew Johnson's Reindeer Garden" and shit....

But Table turns when Gold was discover; which leads to the "Gold Rush"...and later Oil was discovered.... Oh! President Johnson should be immortalized ....



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143WaZoBia:
I just don’t know what to learn from this thread.

1. History

2. The value of foresight in life

punisha:
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That you should buy Alaska u will see gold inside it. I sell original one if u need 2 Alaska for the price of 1 just call my number.

Now this is sense. Where’s your Alaska located?

143WaZoBia:
I just don’t know what to learn from this thread.

How not to sell your birthright and regret taking the decision in the future

phemmyfour:
How not to sell your birthright and regret taking the decision in the future

I will just leave you alone. You lack what they call home training.

Russia never wanted to settle in Alaska, they wanted Alaska for commercial purpose. If they had held on to it GB would have taken it with ease but they sold it for whooping $7.2m 200 years ago. Do the math and understand the value of that money, now guess what. Russia has gold still and they produce 21% of the world’s diamond including the really rare pink diamond so what birth right did they sell? Are they supposed to move to North America so they don’t lose Alaska? Or it is you who have more foresight than Russia?

Very informative.

143WaZoBia:

I will just leave you alone. You lack what they call home training.

Russia never wanted to settle in Alaska, they wanted Alaska for commercial purpose. If they had held on to it GB would have taken it with ease but they sold it for whooping $7.2m 200 years ago. Do the math and understand the value of that money, now guess what. Russia has gold still and they produce 21% of the world’s diamond including the really rare pink diamond so what birth right did they sell? Are they supposed to move to North America so they don’t lose Alaska? Or it is you who have more foresight than Russia?

When it comes to territory, you determine your boundaries. Nothing stop Russia from keeping Alaska. By now, "Russian Americans" would have dominated that region

phemmyfour:
When it comes to territory, you determine your boundaries. Nothing stop Russia from keeping Alaska. By now, "Russian Americans" would have dominated that region

Na so. Russia is the largest country in the world by landmass. The merging between them and Canada the second is just too massive with their meager population. What exactly would they do with Alaska? by the way how are they supposed to govern Alaska that’s in Northern America? And what if the British defeated them and take Alaska from them? You are not smarter than Russia that’s definite.

They needed the money to fund their Crimean war.

leofab:
They needed the money to fund their Crimean war.

You are a reader with sense. Some people just jump into threads with opinions instead of knowledge.