The agreement between the 13 original countries of the United States of America which formed the first constitution of the country is known as the Articles of confederation. One of the major principles of this article was to protect the independence and state sovereignty. Thus it rejected the centralised power.
Purchase of Alaska. But Seward had wanted to buy Alaska for a long time. Alaska is so large that the addition of this land would increase the size of the U.S. by nearly 20 percent. so a.
