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Besides land, what did the United States gain from expansion? Use information from the maps and the lesson in your response. Use complete sentences.

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12 February, 23:12

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Besides land, what did the United States gain from expansion? Use information from the maps and the lesson in your response. Use complete sentences.

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Ciara Miller · Answer 1

Access to the Pacific Ocean, it could be used as protection from invasion or used as a trade route to the Eastern Hemisphere. Just think of Alaska (and it is just one of many examples):

Oil

Fishing industry

Forests for lumber

Gold

If Seward had not purchased Alaska from the Russians in the 1860's the cold war would have been a little more heated.

2.Besides land, what did the United States gain from expansion? Use information from the maps and the lesson in your response. Use complete sentences.

2.

Besides land, what did the United States gain from expansion? Use information from the maps and the lesson in your response. Use complete sentences.