What country did Alaska in the United States belong to?

Originally belonged to Russia.

The history of Alaska is as follows:

In 1784, the Russians established a settlement in Sansheng Bay. This area has been part of Russia since 1799.

After the Crimean War broke out in 1853, Russia was afraid that the Alaska colony would be taken away by Britain, so it proposed to sell Alaska to the United States. On March 30, 1867, the United States paid $7 million plus $200,000 in formalities. Nearly 1.7 million square kilometers of Alaska were purchased from Tsarist Russia for a fee, with an average soil value of only two cents per acre. The effective date of the land contract was October 18, 1867, so the state designated this day as "Alaska Day". Alaska was established in 1912. It was established as a state in 1959 and became the 49th state in the United States.

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The native residents of Alaska include Indians, Eskimos and Aleuts, accounting for approximately the entire state's population 1/7. The rest are Americans, Russians, Japanese, Chinese and other nationalities. There are 80,000 military personnel and their families in the state. 46% of residents live in the Anchorage area.

The United States acquired land on the east bank of the Mississippi River in 1783, acquired Louisiana from Napoleon in 1803, Florida from Spain in 1819, and Texas through the Mexican-American War from 1845 to 1853. Alaska, New Mexico, Oregon and California, purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, and annexed the Hawaiian Islands in 1898.

Since the early 19th century, the territorial expansion of the United States has attracted immigrants. They have continuously migrated westward across the Appalachian Mountains to the West Coast, participating in transportation construction, developing agriculture and animal husbandry, and exploiting large amounts of natural resources. , promoted the industrialization process of the United States. The negative impact is that the westward expansion expelled and eliminated the native Indians, also known as the Trail of Blood and Tears