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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.
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]
In 1867, Secretary of State William Seward negotiated the Alaska Purchase, thereby acquiring Russian Alaska. The Grant administration negotiated a treaty to annex the Dominican Republic, but it failed to win ratification by the Senate.
At the instigation of Seward the United States Senate approved the purchase, known as the Alaska Purchase, from the Russian Empire. The cost was set at 2 cents an acre, which came to a total of $7,200,000 on April 9, 1867. The canceled check is in the present day United States National Archives.
Russia and the U.S. negotiated $7.2 million for the U.S. to acquire Alaska as a territory in 1867 under the Alaska Purchase. (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Today, that would be $153 million.
Adams negotiated the 1819 Spanish Purchase, paying Spain five million Spanish dollars, which was finalized in 1821. ... Alaska was first under U.S. military control. It became a territory in 1912 ...
Seward's Day is a legal holiday in the U.S. state of Alaska. This holiday falls on the last Monday in March and commemorates the signing of the Alaska Purchase treaty on March 30, 1867. [1] It is named for then-Secretary of State William H. Seward, who negotiated the purchase from Russia.
Around the same time, the Senate shot down a treaty Seward negotiated with Denmark for the U.S. to acquire the Virgin Islands. The transfer of the islands eventually moved forward in 1917.