Why was the purchase of Alaska by the United States in 1867 called "Seward's Folly"? O Americans didn't want to own a territory
so far from the mainland and so close to Russia. Americans thought Alaska was nothing but a frozen wasteland and had no resources to offer. O The United States had already annexed Samoa, and didn't need another Pacific territory. O Americans thought the two-cents per acre price tag for Alaska was too expensive.
The American Government insist that they are not corrupt because if they were to say they are, that would mean they would have to actually DO something about it.
