WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -1867: Alaska territory purchased from Russia for $7 million. 1898: Hawaii annexed as a United States territory. 1959: Alaska and Hawaii admitted, respectively, as the 49th and 50th states of the Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hawaii was made a territory in 1900, and Dole became its first governor. Racial attitudes and party politics in the United States deferred statehood until a bipartisan compromise linked Hawaii’s status to Alaska, and both became states in 1959.

Detailed explanation-3: -The United States purchases the rights to Alaska, known as “Russian-America, ” from Russia. Secretary of State William H. Seward negotiates a price of $7.2 million, or roughly 2 cents per acre.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer. Hawaii-a U.S. territory since 1898-became the 50th state in August, 1959, following a referendum in Hawaii in which more than 93% of the voters approved the proposition that the territory should be admitted as a state. There were many Hawaiian petitions for statehood during the first half of the 20th century.

Detailed explanation-5: -Alaska / Hawaii / Philippines. In 1909, Alaska and Hawaii, although they would not become states until nearly fifty years later, were already under American sovereignty. Alaska’s purchase from Russia was negotiated by Secretary of State William H. Seward in 1867 and Hawaii was annexed in 1898.