The treaty with Russia and USA about lease of Alaska ended in 1967....why Alaska is still in USA?

Question

It was Cold War...ok...but now USA and Russia friends,why not to live by legal laws and rights of world?.....UK gave back Honk Kong 10 years ago,may be its time to give back Alaska?

It was lease,but communists desigree all treaty of Tsar Russia with USA,thats why USA dont gave back it,but now Russia are not emocracy and take all taxes and etc of Tsar Russia.....it was lease for 100 years,but after revolution this lease was over....

Russia are not communists now

It was lease,but in USA its unknown fact

The treaty documents were opened to world after social-democracy revolution in 1917 when all treaties of Russian Tsar which were secret became open

Did you know,that Russia did not get 7.200.000$?...seaship was crashed,but with out money,one sum of this was givven to Ambassodor of Russia,so after day when Alaska became american,it was started deporteds of russians by power of yanks there,very rude people were been,i hope now mens in Alaska more better

Do you have ice cream "Escimo"?

Do you have ice cream "Escimo"?

Yess...those russian jew Zhirinovski,he want back Alaska and ex soviet republics by blue revolutions and he would wash his legs in Indian ocean,how he say...

Answer 1

Time probably froze...hehehe!

Wow... I did not know that.
Russia is big enough, anyway, and how many people in Alaska today would actually want to switch governments and economies from that of the USA to Russia?

Answer 2

Alaska Lease Agreement

Answer 3

Seward's Folly

William H. Seward, secretary of state under both Lincoln and Johnson, was an ardent expansionist. He was committed to the spread of American influence throughout the Pacific as a means of enhancing the nation’s trade and military standing.
Russia had been interested in selling Alaska for a number of years. The region seemed to have little value and was remote and hard to defend. Negotiations with the United States were opened during the Buchanan administration, but came to a halt with the opening of the Civil War.

Seward actually began negotiations with the Russians before receiving authorization from Johnson. Nonetheless, when the outline of a deal was presented to the cabinet, Seward was surprised to find little opposition. The agreement was signed in March 1867 and transferred Alaska to the United States in return for a payment of $7.2 million, amounting to a price of about 2.5 cents per acre for an area twice the size of Texas.

The treaty was ratified by the U.S. Senate by a single vote.

Answer 4

Well, it looks like there are several reasons, most of which have been stated. 1st being that it was purchased with 7.2 million $, not a lease. 2nd, Alaska became one of the 50 states of the United States in 1959 - that probably overrides and would block any lease agreements you have mentioned right there. 3rd, the majority of people would probably protest - most Alaskans would probably want to stay American and not become Russian -who would want to change the American flag from 50 stars back to 49? - Alaska is unmistakably identified with and inherently part of America and America's ideal of the "the great frontier", and most Americans of the other 49 states, many who have visited the great state of Alaska, would probably not want to give up Alaska to Russia. 4th, Russia already consists of a huge land mass, I believe it is still the largest nation on earth, and much of it is like a giant Alaska - it's called Siberia. 5th, Russia has enough to worry about, like maintaining its shaky economy and its border with China, Kazakhstan and Europe - Russia should colonize space, there's unlimited space in space and no ones' got a claim on it, right? Why would Russia want to make an *ss of itself in the global community of nations by demanding that the U.S. give up the territory (which is no longer a territory, but is now the state) of Alaska? I do not think Russia would want do that and I do not think America or Americans would want to allow that.

Answer 5

it was purchased, not leased. and to answer your question about rude people - they're pretty nice there now, hahah so don't worry. i'm not even sure why you'd want alaska back in the first place - its extremely expensive to live there, because most products have to be imported either by plane or by boat, and aside from juneau and anchorage the towns all look exactly the same. unless you're an eskimo, you probably have no reason to live there. =p

Answer 6

Russia is too weak a country to take back Alaska IF it was a lease in the 1860's that transferred ownership to the US.

My history education disputes that it was a lease. Rather the US bought Alaska. From Russia.

Your English is VERY bad. Your additional comments are so poorly worded that no one understands the point you are making.

Perhaps you should go to you own nation's Yahoo Answer site and ask in your native language.

Answer 7

What is this lease you speak of? We bought Alaska in the late 19th century---then turned it into a state in the mid-20th

Answer 8

Alaska was purchaced by the USA from Russia, not leased.

Answer 9

Is this Vladimir Zhirinovsky? Alaska was purchased, not leased. Shaken, not stirred....

Answer 10

We bought it from Alaska it was not leased.

Why dont you know this ?