Assigned Blog #5:
Taking Alaska
- William Seward was Secretary of State under Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
- Seward arranged for the U.S. to buy Alaska from the Russian for $7.2 million (1867)
- In 1959, Alaska became a state.
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