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Flashcards by Brad Hegarty, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Brad Hegarty
about 10 years ago
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| Explorers first discovered Alaska in 1741 when Danish explorer Vitus Jonassen Bering spotted land on a voyage from Siberia. | |
| Russian whalers and fur traders from Kodiak Island established the first settlement in Alaska in 1784. | |
| In 1867 United States Secretary of State William H. Seward offered Russia $7,200,000, for Alaska. This became known as 'Sewards Folly' | |
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Alaska accounts for 25% of the oil produced in the United States.
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| The state of Rhode Island could fit into Alaska 425 times. |
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The fishing and seafood industry is the state's largest private industry employer.
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In fact, most of America's salmon, crab, halibut, and herring come from Alaska.
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| The Alaska state motto is North to the Future. |
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