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The purchase of this territory got the nickname "seward's folly"

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Alaska

Critics of the deal to purchase Alaska called it "Seward's Folly" or "Seward's Icebox." Opposition to the purchase of Alaska subsided with the Klondike Gold Strike in 1896.

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