American States That Might Have Been

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Beyond 50: American States That Might Have Been : NPR

[Mr I]

American history is so short but when did alaska get brought in?

[Bouncer]

American history is so short but when did alaska get brought in?

"The U.S. Senate approved the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, for $7.2 million at about two cents per acre ($4.74/km2). The land went through several administrative changes before becoming an organized territory on May 11, 1912, and the 49th state of the U.S. on January 3, 1959. The name "Alaska" (Аляска) was already introduced in the Russian colonial time, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning "the mainland" or more literally, "the object towards which the action of the sea is directed".[6] It is also known as Alyeska, the "great land", an Aleut word derived from the same root."

[Mr I]

Whose that cat on here from there, I wanna go and spend a night in an igloo