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Which state was once a territory called Seward’s Ice Box?

Hawaii
Alaska
Texas
Florida

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Alaska
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Seward was named after President Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Henry Seward. Seward engineered the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867 for the bargain price of two cents per acre.
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User Max Koretskyi
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Alaska. People who disliked the purchase of Alaska from Russia often ridiculed congress by calling it this
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