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Without looking it up, do you know the last purchase of sovereign land USA made?
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:22 pm
Only hints: treaty in 1916, transfer in 1917 for $25 million in gold.
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Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:23 pm to IvoryBillMatt
Gasden Purchase, around Arizona and New Mexico IIRC.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:24 pm to teke184
Great guess. Nope
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:24 pm to IvoryBillMatt
I'm going to guess it was the U.S. Virgin Islands purchased from the Dutch.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:27 pm to kingbob
Half right....we purchased them from DENMARK.
Hmmmmmmmmm, so we do have a purchasing history.
Hmmmmmmmmm, so we do have a purchasing history.
This post was edited on 1/6/26 at 10:29 pm
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:29 pm to kingbob
I say land associated with the Panama Canal, which some idiot (D) allowed to be given back to Panama.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:34 pm to GusMcRae
Good guess, but purchase of Virgin Islands was a few years later.
Fun fact...and also relevant to Greenland. Panama had been owned by Colombia. Colombia wouldn't sell to USA. Teddy helped Panama secede from Colombia. Is history going to repeat?
Fun fact...and also relevant to Greenland. Panama had been owned by Colombia. Colombia wouldn't sell to USA. Teddy helped Panama secede from Colombia. Is history going to repeat?
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:37 pm to IvoryBillMatt
Did we purchase Saipan, American Samoa, or the Northern Mariana Islands from Germany?
Posted on 1/6/26 at 10:52 pm to kingbob
Germany had owned them at some point, but we didn't purchase them directly from Germany. I think they were "awarded" to us after WWII.
Posted on 1/6/26 at 11:05 pm to IvoryBillMatt
Hawaii
Posted on 1/6/26 at 11:28 pm to IvoryBillMatt
Alaska? We gave Ruskies gold?
Posted on 1/6/26 at 11:43 pm to GusMcRae
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which some idiot (D) allowed to be given back to Panama.
Carter, even deceased, he's the gift which keeps on giving... and voting.
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