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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.
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Eager to release themselves of the burden, the Russians sold Fort Ross in 1841, and in 1867, after less than a month of negotiations, the United States accepted Emperor Alexander II's offer to sell Alaska. The Alaska Purchase for $7.2 million (equivalent to $157 million in 2023) ended Imperial Russia's colonial presence in the Americas.
Louisiana Purchase: Florida [9] United States Spain: $5,000,000 USD 1819 ~200,000 km² ~5 USD/km² Adams–Onís Treaty: Singapore [10] United Kingdom Johor: $60,000 Spanish dollars [11] 1824 728 km² ~82 Spanish dollars/km² Tranquebar, Serampore, and other continental holdings of Danish India [12] United Kingdom Denmark
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]
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In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire along the Inside Passage (2008) Chandonnet, Fern. Alaska at War, 1941–1945: The Forgotten War Remembered (2007) Gruening, Ernest (1967). The Battle for Alaska Statehood. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks. ISBN 0-912006-12-9. Gruening, Ernest (1954). The State of Alaska. Random House, New York. ASIN ...
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