Access to the Pacific Ocean, it could be used as protection from invasion or used as a trade route to the Eastern Hemisphere. <span>Just think of Alaska (and it is just one of many examples): </span>
<span>Oil </span>
<span>Fishing industry </span>
<span>Forests for lumber </span>
<span>Gold </span>
<span>If Seward had not purchased Alaska from the Russians in the 1860's the cold war would have been a little more heated.</span>
I think of back in the day when war was happening
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