when was alaska acquired ?
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Alaska was acquired on March 30, 1867 when Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska for 7.2 million dollars. Critics attacked Seward for the deal with Russia, which came to be known as "Seward's Folly." Alaska became the 49th state on January 3, 1959. By the way, the state paid for itself on the opening day of the Alaska Pipeline.
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http://www.paleoportal.org/time_space/state.php?name=Alaska
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Not any more.  I think the Alaska land grant program has been discontinued.
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Hmmm, we did buy Louisianna and Alaska... and we did kill off the natives throughout the west... and we did have a war with the south to make them stay in the union...  I just don't think Americans would like the outcome of an Iraq 51st state national election... ha, and I'm pretty sure Iraqi's have no desire to become a US state.
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1959 when Alaska was admitted to the Union.
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Western and Southern would be Hawaii, and Northern would be Alaska.
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Nunavut officially became a territory on April 1, 1999.
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NO TAX IS THE ONLY FAIR WAY!\n\n\nThe Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person. \n\nIn 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments. \n\nAlaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production. \nSource(s):
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After the Mexican-American War, the United States paid Mexico $15 million (the Treaty of Guadulupe Hidalgo) for what is now California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico.  Texas won its War of Independence from Mexico in 1836, and later joined the United States as a slave state in 1845.\n\nThe United States later purchased the southern portion of Arizona, as well as the panhandle portion of New Mexico, in 1853 (the Gadsden Purchase) for $10 million.
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I think it's a stretch to compare Alaska to colonies.  No one is pointing a gun at Alaska and saying what its people can and can't do, whereas in European colonies in the past, peoples' lives were pretty much run by their oppressors.  And if I recall correctly, Alaska gets quite a bit of pork out of Washington.  \n\nI also think that from an environmental and economic standpoint, we may be losing more than we gain by going after Alaskan natural resources.
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Up until relatively recently, one of the island chains belonging to the state of Alaska was technically on the other side of the International Date Line from the rest of the country. This meant that the islands were the furthest "east" someone could go (without crossing the date line), yet the state itself, generally speaking, was the furthest west land area of the political entity known as the United States of America. \n\nThe same thing happened with another small island group inthe south-central Pacific ... basically, one half of the country was on one side of the date line and the other half was on the other.\n\nThe date line was subsequently "jiggled", to keep those countries whose territories are in the vicinity of the date line to remain "on the same side".\n\nTherefore, (from the US perspective) Alaska is - at present - the WESTERNMOST state, and Maine is the EASTERNMOST (neglecting the off-shore protectorates of Puerto Rico and Guam).\n\nHowever, we ALSO need to look at how longitude is measured. "Eastward" occurs from the line of 0 longitude (approximately Greenwich England) and moves toward Europe and Asia. "Westward" occurs from the same starting point and moves west over the Atlantic and across North America. The line of longitude that is directly opposite from 0 would be 180 ... which happens to pass through Alaska. Thus Alaska could be both "eastern- and western-most"
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Check out the site listed below and do a "Find" search for the word "Alaska." Your coin could be worth between $25 and $140, depending on the coin.
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Alaska is a state in the United States of America.  The president is George W. Bush, just like the other 49 states.  As of 2000, there were approximately 627,000 residents.  It is projected to be closer to 700,000 by the year 2010.
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The University of Alaska
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In 1867 William Seward negotiated Alaska's sale from the Russians to the U.S., and the subsequent discovery of gold stimulated American settlement. Alaska was a U.S. territory from 1912 until it was admitted as the 49th state in 1959.\n \nThe original Hawaiians were of Polynesian origin and came from the Marquesas Islands с AD 400. Capt. James Cook visited the islands in 1778 and called them the Sandwich Islands. In 1796 Kamehameha I united the group under his rule. American whalers began to stop there; they were followed in 1820 by New England missionaries, and Western influences changed the islands. While Kamehameha III in 1851 placed Hawaii under U.S. protection, a coup later fomented by U.S. sugar interests resulted in the monarchy's overthrow and the establishment of a Republic of Hawaii (1893). In 1898 the new republic and the U.S. agreed on annexation, and in 1900 Hawaii became a U.S. territory. The bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941 led to U.S. involvement in World War II, and Hawaii became a major naval station. Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959.
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alot..I don't know what percent but most of Alaska is unpopulated and it's about the size of half of the continental US.
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I didn't see one listed in the Alaska MLS for Anchorage. Other than looking up each realtor that works at each realty, that's the best that I could do for you. Luckily, if you decide to go that route, Anchorage isn't nearly as big as say Los Angeles or New York!