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2. Provide at least THREE reasons why the USA's purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 proved to key to the country's expansion.
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2. Provide at least THREE reasons why the USA's purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 proved

to key to the country's expansion.

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Russia wanted to sell its Alaska territory which was remote sparsely populated and difficult to defend to the U.S rather than risk losing it in battle with a rival such as Great Britain.
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