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Tsar Peter wanted to know if Asia and North America were connected by land.
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Was hunted by Russians to extinction
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Current day Valdez was christened
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Malaspina was looking for a strait, but ran into the largest Glacier and is now named after him
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Established a citadel at SItka Bay. It was destroyed by Tlingit Warriors and reestablished in 1804.
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Was transferred to Sitka AK
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American and French ships sailed north from Hawaii looking for blubber laden whales.
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Had translated and published several books in Aleut
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Became a monk and was elevated to bishop of Kamchatka, Kuvites, and Aleutian Islands.
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Veniaminov was appointed
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Seminary was relocated to Sitka and it opened with 54 students, 3 teachers and a library
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292 ships operated off Kodiak Island
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Created the belfry clock of St. Michael's and then traveled to Unalaska
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Russian Mining Engineer found small gold deposit in Kenai Peninsula
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to Yakitsk
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This made oil prices plunge. Whales were still hunted for baleen.
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Tsar Alexander II instructed his ambassador to Washington to sell Alaska to the US for $7.2 million.
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Christian Soldier of the Great land. Alaska mission at Wrangell
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Amanda R. McFarland was sent to Wrangell to start a school
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was a high-caste Tlingit girl from Mrs. McFarland's Home for Girl's and began working as an interpreter
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Muir set out to check on Glacier Bay.
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L. Beardslee, naval commander established a Native Police Force in Sitka.
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First major strike by Joe Juneau at site of present day Juneau.
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by 1890 25,000 sightseers had traveled to Glacier Bay
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This act brought civil government to the Last Frontier and provided for public education
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The armed forces reluctantly shouldered the burden of policing all of Alaska.
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Which allowed Natives to remain undisturbed on the land they occupied until their title was confirmed by the future legislation
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Sheldon Jackson was named the federal education agent.
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The Pribilof Islands were set as the mating grounds for seals. Alaska won the bid and got exclusive hunting there for 20 years, however this didn't prevent others from attempting to kill seals off the coast of the islands.
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The year round population in Alaska went from 30,000-60,000
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Alaska was introduced to a liquor licensing system
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Fairbanks was settled by veteran minors who had wives and families.
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Juneau replaced Sitka as Alaska's state capital
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at age 9, Murie moved to Fairbanks with her mother. Later she became the University of Alaska's first woman graduate.
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This made Alaska a U.S. Territory with its own legislature
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Won territorial status for Alaska. Both men and women were allowed to vote and elect a territorial legislature
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A wilderness construction camp, overnight a tent city of 2,000 sprang up
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400 miles of Alaska railroad had begun. In 1923 President Warren Harding drove in the golden spike at Nenana
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was drafted by Judge James Wickersham
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Alaska yielded over $29 million in copper compared to $19 million in gold
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US government closed the orthodox church school on St. Paul Island
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made the first flight up the inside passage from Seattle to Ketchikan
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Wien Brothers of Minnesota came to Alaska in 1924 making Fairbanks the hub of Alaska Aviation
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Presbyterian General Assembly declared women could be church elders and Tillie Paul Tamaree was made an elder in Wrangell. (First woman in US to hold such a position.)
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Pioneer Alaskans refused natives the right to vote and had segregated churches and schools.
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First person to land on a glacier in a bush plane
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IRA recognized legitimacy of Indian self-determination: Indian land titles, limited power of self government to Indian reservation. Originally no tribes were recognized
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A new bill that recognizes Tlingit and Haida Indians to protect Native Land titles. Some southeast villages did vote to create small reservations but were declared invalid and detrimental to statehood.
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Was passed placing reindeer under native control
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Greuning wanted to end "whites only" areas of Alaska
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Construction began on the Alcan highway.
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900 Aleuts were forced to evacuate the island. The military did such a horrible job with the evacuation that many natives died and those who didn't later returned home to villages that had been looted and burnt by soldiers.
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1,200 Japanese troops built an air base. Americans lost many aircraft due to violent gales and low visibility.
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11,000 troops landed on Attu. 549 combat deaths, 1,148 wounded with 3,829 casualties
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11 years before Rosa Parks, Alberta Schenck sat in the "white only" section of the local theater in Nome, Alaska.
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Alaska Territorial legislature ending racial discrimination in public places. Nearly a decade before the national legislature
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legislature passed and was signed into law
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Hydaburg 101,000 acres
Klawack 95,000 acres
Kake 77,000 acres
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This helped create great racial advances in Alaska
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caused $27 million in damage to the Alaska Railroad
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ARCO discovered oil in Prudhoe Bay
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Oil revenues increased from 25-50%
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All of Alaska is included with the exception of Western Aleutians
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Crab stocks were so low that most of the commercial seasons were cancelled
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from 19-21
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Price of oil drops below $10 a barrel
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New bill passed
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Anchorage lost 30,000 people
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This begins as a first troops of the new 6th infantry division arrive in Fairbanks
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Exxon spilled 11 million gallons into Prince William Sound
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This reform designates more wilderness land in South East Alaska
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Congress effectively closed this to oil development
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Fisherman strike over low salmon prices
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Oil industry with major job losses: Anchorage Times folds
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Mine near Juneau closes due to low silver, zinc and lead prices.
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Court mandated new reapportionment scheme redrew the boundaries of some of the election districts.
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Ticket holders are stranded, employees laid off.
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Villagers return to newly built village from the fall flood of 1994
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$267 million dollar project with backing by US Department of Energy
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US Congress lifts the ban on exportation of Alaska crude oil.
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was sold to 3 private companies after being owned by public utility by 50 years.
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Legislature passed a bill requiring all students to pass exit exams to earn high school diplomas. Became effective 2002.
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Lieutenant Governor Fran Ulmer certified an initiative petition making English Alaska's official language.
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ruled that 1.9 million acres of ancestral land owned by Venetie Tribe of Neetsaii Gwich'in Indians are no longer under the governmental jurisdiction of the tribe.
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Adopted standards for math, reading and writing
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Court ruled Alaska had failed to provide adequate school facilities for Bush students, which is a violation of Alaska constitution and federal civil law.
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Tests implemented for 3rd, 6th, 8th, 10th grades
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Making its residents eligible for subsistence fish and game on federal land and water
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to pay $6.75 million for 1989 oil spill
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Palin takes office as Alaska's first women governor.
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Spilled 267,000 gallons of oil at Prudhoe Bay
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$5.65 to $7.15. Alaska with the highest minimum wage on the west coast.
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unspecified reasons
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Anchorage school district to focus on preschool after study ranks Alaska 49th in US education.
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Alaska school superintendents say the state is in a crisis. They're pushing for statewide effort to fix it.
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K-3 reading program. Focuses on enhancing interventions for struggling readers and offering targeted school improvement. There will be statewide teacher training on reading instruction, focus on existing stare and federal funds, early literacy screening tool, monitored student progress and multiple pathways to demonstrate reading proficiency.
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Alaska is working on a new program to focus on early identification of struggling students. It will work on reading interventions and early education programs.