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The United States bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.
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The purchase in 1867 worked out at about two cents an acre. Critics at the time mocked it as "Seward’s Folly", after the secretary of state who arranged it.
Source: Alaska Purchase (Wikipedia)
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