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The history of Alaska dates back to the Upper Paleolithic period (around 14,000 BC), when foraging groups crossed the Bering land bridge into what is now western Alaska. At the time of European contact by the Russian explorers , the area was populated by Alaska Native groups.
The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023) [1].On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.
Alaska Purchase: Dutch Gold Coast [17] United Kingdom Netherlands: 46,939.62 Dutch guilders: 1872 Anglo-Dutch Treaties of 1870–1871: Saint Barthélemy [18] [19] France Sweden: 320,000 French francs: 1878 21 km² 15,238 Francs/km² Philippines United States Spain: $20,000,000 USD 1898 300,000 km² 20 USD/km² Treaty of Paris: Caroline Islands ...
Swains Island, annexed: 1925: 0.94: 2.43-----[7] Kanton Island and Enderbury Island, joint occupation with Britain (Independent as Republic of Kiribati in 1979) 1938: 6.5: 16.8----- Water Island, by purchase from the East Asiatic Company, a private shipping company based in Denmark (which at the time was under German occupation) 1944: 0.8: 2.0 ...
The first Russian colony in Alaska was founded in 1784 by Grigory Shelikhov. [5]: 102 Subsequently, Russian explorers and settlers continued to establish trading posts in mainland Alaska, on the Aleutian Islands, Hawaii, and Northern California.
The United States bought Alaska in 1867 from Russia in the Alaska Purchase, but the boundary terms were ambiguous. In 1871, British Columbia united with the new Dominion of Canada. The Canadian government requested a survey of the boundary, but the United States rejected it as too costly; the border area was very remote and sparsely settled ...
In 1946, President Harry Truman tried to buy the island from Denmark for $100 million in gold bullion, citing the island was a “military necessity,” according to NPR. Trump looking at more ...
The Alexander Archipelago (Russian: Архипелаг Александра) is a 300-mile-long (480 km) archipelago (group of islands) in North America lying off the southeastern coast of Alaska. It contains about 1,100 islands, the tops of submerged coastal mountains that rise steeply from the Pacific Ocean .