Read the excerpt from a new york newspaper about the united states’ purchase of alaska. cash! cash! cash! - cash paid for cast off territory. . . . any impoverished monarchs retiring from the colonization business may find a good purchaser by addressing william h. seward, post office, washington d.c. which best states the excerpt’s point of view toward alaska? alaska is too large to purchase. alaska should be sold to other countries. alaska has few natural resources. alaska is land that no one wants.

Russia had repeatedly offered to sell its North American territories to the United States, but the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 delayed negotiations. On March 29, 1867, Stockl and Seward completed a draft treaty ceding Russia's North America to the United States, which was signed early the next day.

Some newspapers devastated the decision to see the new territory differently, but most Americans were ambivalent although some supported the decision. Alaska remained under U.S. military control until her June 1877, after which it was briefly governed by the Treasury Department and then by various military agencies.

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