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In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for $7,200,000. The U.S. purchase was accomplished solely through the determined efforts of Secretary of State William H. Seward , and for many years afterward the land was derisively called Seward's Folly or Seward's Icebox because of its supposed uselessness.

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