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What was Sewards Folly given for?

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What was Sewards Folly given for?

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Seward, as Secretary of State under President Andrew Johnson, negotiated the purchase of Alaska for $7.2 million—2 cents an acre. He received little thanks from his generation; instead, was taunted about the purchase as “Seward’s Folly.

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