Asked by Chuck Bass
How did the United States acquire Alaska?
Americans overthrew the indigenous monarchy and annexed the territory.
China surrendered the territory to the United States after the Boxer Rebellion.
Japan gifted it to Roosevelt for his help in negotiating the Treaty of Portsmouth.
Russia sold the territory for $7.2 million.
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Russia sold the territory to the United States for $7.2 million (the 1867 Alaska Purchase, negotiated by Secretary of State William H. Seward).
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