USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On March 30, 1867, the United States reached an agreement to purchase Alaska from Russia for a price of $7.2 million. The Treaty with Russia was negotiated and signed by Secretary of State William Seward and Russian Minister to the United States Edouard de Stoeckl.

Detailed explanation-2: -Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million on March 30, 1867.

Detailed explanation-3: -Seward, enthusiastic about the prospects of American Expansion, negotiated the deal for the Americans. Edouard de Stoeckl, Russian minister to the United States, negotiated for the Russians. On March 30, 1867, the two parties agreed that the United States would pay Russia $7.2 million for the territory of Alaska.

Detailed explanation-4: -Seward (1801-1872) was among the most prominent American politicians of the Civil War era. In his capacity as secretary of state in the 1860s, he was a singular advocate for the purchase of Alaska, which he favored as part of a general policy of American expansionism.

Detailed explanation-5: -The acquisition of Alaska by the United States on March 30, 1867, was dubbed “Seward’s Folly” or ridiculed as “Seward’s Icebox” by critics at the time.