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  2. File:Czar's Ratification of the Alaska Purchase Treaty - NARA ...

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    This file was provided to Wikimedia Commons by the National Archives and Records Administration as part of a cooperation project.The National Archives and Records Administration provides images depicting American and global history which are public domain or licensed under a free license.

  3. Alaska Purchase - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Russian colonization of North America - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska Purchase Treaty clearly states that the agreement was for a complete Russian cession of the territory. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] The Alaskan Native peoples, in their struggle for democracy and indigenous rights , take issue with the legitimacy of colonial rule itself rather than the purchase from the Russian Empire.

  5. Eduard de Stoeckl - Wikipedia

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    Eduard Guillaume Andreevich Stoeckl (Russian: Эдуард Андреевич Стекль) (1804 – 26 January 1892) was a Russian diplomat best known today for having negotiated the American purchase of Alaska on behalf of the Russian government. [1]

  6. Alaska payment conspiracy - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska payment conspiracy (Russian: Аляскинский платежный заговор, romanized: Ali͡askinskiĭ platezhnyĭ zagovor), also known as the Orkney conspiracy (Russian: Оркни заговор), is a conspiracy theory that the Russian Empire never received payment for the Alaska purchase from the United States, and that instead the ship, the Orkney, that carried the ...

  7. Alaska Statehood Act - Wikipedia

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    In 1884, the Department of Alaska was organized into the District of Alaska, when Congress passed the Organic Act allowing Alaska to become a judicial district as well as a civil one, with judges, clerks, marshalls, and limited government officials appointed by the federal government to run the territory. [2]

  8. PDF - Wikipedia

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    Interactive Forms is a mechanism to add forms to the PDF file format. PDF currently supports two different methods for integrating data and PDF forms. Both formats today coexist in the PDF specification: [37] [52] [53] [54] AcroForms (also known as Acrobat forms), introduced in the PDF 1.2 format specification and included in all later PDF ...

  9. Wood-Tikchik State Park - Wikipedia

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    Alaska Department of Natural Resources Wood-Tikchik State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Alaska north of Dillingham . Over 1,600,000 acres (650,000 ha) (6,500 km 2 ) in area—about the size of the state of Delaware —, comprising more than half of all state park land in Alaska and 15% of the total state park land in the country.