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What was the biggest surprise with Alaska?

The location
The resource
The cost
The purchase

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The Alaska Purchase gave the United States a land mass of 586,412 square miles, an area about twice the size of Texas. But it came at a time when the United States had just ended the Civil War, and it had an abundance of underpopulated land.

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