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| CARTOON WILLIAM |
Alaska will not be happy to buy one? You should get a turn, you know. You have to buy two acres to 586,000 hectares per cent in everything it.By "you" means that as the tax payer. Back in 1867, President Andrew Johnson, heir of Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. bought Alaska to Russia to $ 7.2 million.
Alaska was not impulsive purchase decisions. U.S. Congress has been discussing for several years. Alaska is a huge plot of land, and nobody really knew what's in this part of the world. Russia was motivated to sell. Alaska was far from all the territories subject to any thing that does not deserve to be. And then, Russia has achieved nothing in Alaska, so it would be good to note that the winner of this particular matter what price will sell.
So finally, on March 30, 1867, the purchase is completed. The man responsible for negotiating the purchase of William H. Seward, Secretary of State was President Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. land deal was immediately named, "Seward nonsense"and "Seward Ice Box" and "Walrussia" People who think the United States through the purchase of a desert. Also referred to the "Polar Bear Garden Johnson.
