Important Parts of Alaskan History
In 1859 Russia proposed to America that they would sell Alaska.But because the Civil war was looming America didn’t get to buying it tell after the war. In 1784 the Russians established the first white settlement in Alaska, on Kodiak Island. In 1897 through 1898 the Klondike and Alaska Gold Rush started. In 1906 Alaskans elected their first delegate to the U.S Congress. The largest oil field in North America is at Prudhoe Bay in Alaska's far north in 1967. It was a pipeline that that stretched over 800 miles. The worst oil spill in history happened in Prince William Sound on March 24 1989, 11 million gallons of oil spilled killing thousands of marine life species. Not a lot of people know that Japanese soldiers have actually attacked american soil in 1942 at Alaska's Dutch Harbor and occupied two Aleutian islands six moths after the attack on pearl harbor. Alaska also played an important role in World War 2. More than 8,000 planes were transferred to Russia over the course of the war.