Задание

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In 1897, Russia sold Alaska to the United States for only 7.2 million dollars. With inflation, that is around 120 million dollars today. At the time, critics thought that Secretary of State William H. Seward who agreed to buy Alaska was crazy. But Seward had wanted to do it for a long time. Alaska is so large that the addition of this land increased the size of the U.S. by nearly 20 percent. Major discoveries of gold were made there in the 1880s and 1890s. These discoveries brought attention and people to Alaska.

  • Gender disproportion
  • A woodland country
  • An extreme climate
  • One expression, different attitudes
  • A good purchase
  • A popular holiday
  • The biggest of all
  • Moving in a circle