How was the purchase of alaska an example of imperialism? a. it allowed the us to destroy a country and gained a state. c. it was a military action that fortified the u. s. role in the world. b. it was a waste of money for the u. s. in an attempt to conquer the world. d. it expanded the us borders by gaining territory from another country?

The best answer is d. it expanded the us borders by gaining territory from another country.

The purchase of Alaska was part of a new United States empire that was beginning to form an extra-continental, commercial empire, in which Alaska would be a link in a strategic chain designed to control future markets in Asia. In 1867, the United States bought Alaska for $7.2 million, thus removing Russia, the most recent colonial power, from North America. Critics scoffed at “Seward’s folly” of buying the Alaskan “icebox,” but it proved to be the biggest bargain since the Louisiana Purchase. Seward’s successors at the State Department sustained his expansionist vision. Acquiring key ports on islands in the Pacific Ocean was the major focus of overseas activity throughout the rest of the nineteenth century.

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