Legal Status Of Alaska
Alaskan nationalism asserts that Alaska is a distinct nation. Alaska has been one of the fifty states of the United States of America since 1959. Alaska's legal status within the United States has been disputed at times, most recently by a movement launched by Joe Vogler and the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP). Generally, the debate has surrounded the legal status of Alaska relative to the United States, and its international standing. Background Alaska became a territory of the United States in 1867, when it was Alaska Purchase, purchased from the Russian Empire. Events in the 20th century such as World War II and the Cold War led to the decision to admission to the Union, admit Alaska as a state. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act into law on July 7, 1958, which paved the way for Alaska's admission into the Union on January 3, 1959. The vote for statehood was held in 1958. Voters approved the measure by a 6 to 1 margin. The United Nations decolonizati ...
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Alaska
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., it borders the Canadian province of British Columbia and the Yukon territory to the east; it also shares a maritime border with the Russian Federation's Chukotka Autonomous Okrug to the west, just across the Bering Strait. To the north are the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas of the Arctic Ocean, while the Pacific Ocean lies to the south and southwest. Alaska is by far the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. It represents the seventh-largest subnational division in the world. It is the third-least populous and the most sparsely populated state, but by far the continent's most populous territory located mostly north of the 60th parallel, with ...
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