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Alaska is a state.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Denali_Mt_McKinley.jpg)

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-Alaska really help America because of the gold.

- It also had natural resources such as wood wildlife and metal.

- It made American a a lot bigger too.

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-William Henry Seward was born in Floida New York on May 16, 1801.

-Union College in Schenectady, New York, starting in 1816.

-He graduated from Union College in 1820 and studied law before being admitted to the bar in 1822.

- When Seward graduated he wanted political politics but fail and went on to Holland Land Company, a syndicate of Dutch investors who had purchased vast expanses of land in western New York.      (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Seward)     (History)

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- March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.

- He buyed it for more land to the u.s little did he know that there was some much natural resources there.

- People called it Seward's icebox and thought it was a waste of money.

- Seward wanted to buy Alaska for a while now Seward wanted to buy it because it was huge and have so much more land.        (Office of Historian)

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Why did Russia sell Alaska to the United States?

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The Pacific Ocean to the south and southwest.       (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icy_Cape,_Alaska)