Why did america buy this land?
Why did america buy this land?
Carson Nelson
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Julian Gutierrez
fight the commies
Anthony Morris
it was bought in 1867. long before that.
its literally just a frozen hellhole.
Adrian Parker
Back then the usa and rusia cooperated in order to keep the english at check
Joshua Moore
they envisaged bob ross and his show
Jaxon Hill
true i just guessed
>Russia wanted to sell its Alaskan territory, due to the difficulty of living there, apparent lack of natural resources (gold was later discovered in 1896), and fearing that it might be easily seized by the United Kingdom in case of war between the two countries.
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Jordan Williams
Ryan Cox
Territorial expansion and alleged economic benefit. Its pirchase was approved by the senate in the mid 1800s by a margin of 1 vote, and for a long time thereafter Alaska was known as "Seward's icebox" because it was a dead weight on the US. It wasn't until the early 1900s that Alaska was found to have oil and other important natural resources and only after WW2 was it discovered to be of vital geopolitical importance. As of 2016 the GDP per capita of Alaska (despite having low IQ unproductive native americans as around 30% of its population) was higher than 48 of 50 states, and it has the highest GNP/c.
Currently it is one of the most libertarian states, having among the most lax gun laws, legal recreational marijuana, and one of the lowest population densities of any US state.
Blake Brown
This is too far away from m*scow and it required big resources to protect this land.
Alexander Adams
>and one of the lowest population densities of any US state.
too bad it's full of drunks and native americans (brown people.) i think natives make up like 50% of the population or something like that. otherwise i'd move there.