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Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
Deal's Old Town
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Middle Street, Deal, England

The Alaska Purchase was the United States' acquisition of Alaska from the Russian Empire on March 30, 1867, by a treaty ratified by the United States Senate, and signed by President Andrew Johnson. Russia wanted to sell its Alaskan territory, due to the difficulty of living there, apparent lack of natural resources , and fearing that it might be easily seized by the United Kingdom in case of war between the two countries. Russia's primary activities in the territory had been fur trade and missionary work among the Native Alaskans. The land added 586,412 square miles of new territory to the United States. Reactions to the purchase in the United States were mostly positive; some opponents called it Seward's Folly , while others praised the move for weakening both the UK and Russia as rivals to American commercial expansion in the Pacific region. Originally organized as the Department of Alaska, the area was renamed the District of Alaska and the Alaska Territory before becoming the modern state of Alaska upon being admitted to the Union as a state in 1959.
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