[DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about US Geography - StudyStack [PAR] In 1867 the U.S. bought this island group named for a Russian captain & leased it 
to seal hunting companies, Priblilof Islands. The name of this body of water on... [DOC] [TLE] Alaska Purchase - Wikipedia [PAR] The Alaska Purchase was the United States' acquisition of Alaska from the 
Russian Empire on March 30, 1867 by a treaty ratified by the United States .... 
This name had earlier, in the Russian era, denoted the Alaska Peninsula, which 
the .... to the United States by the lease of the privilege of taking seals, in fact an 
amount in... [DOC] [TLE] Russian America - Wikipedia [PAR] Russian America was the name of the Russian colonial possessions in the 
Americas from 1733 to 1867. Settlements spanned parts of what are now the US 
states of California, ... On some islands and parts of the Alaska Peninsula, groups 
of traders had .... Zealous overhunting had severely reduced the fur-bearing 
animal... [DOC] [TLE] Island History | Pribilof Islands [PAR] Currently, among some Aleuts, the preferred Aleut name for St. Paul Island is ... 
Unorganized contingents of Russian hunting companies harvested seals in the 
early ... The United States acquired the Pribilof Islands when it purchased Alaska 
for ... [sic] and the Copper island of the Kormandorski couplet or group in the 
North... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 4-16: Fishing and Sea Hunting - Alaska's Heritage | Alaska ... [PAR] Americans fish for cod in Alaska waters before 1867 ... Other large companies in 
the Alaska salmon canning industry included Pacific Steam Whaling .... At the 
beginning of the war the U.S. government bought 40 whaling ships, filled them 
with ..... The company also leased Russia's Commander Islands and sealed there
. [DOC] [TLE] Aleutian Islands - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] Mar 2, 2016 ... The Aleutians are home to sea otters, seals, puffins, fulmars, murres, and ... The 
Aleutian Islands consequently belonged to Russia, until that country transferred 
all its possessions in North America to the United States in 1867. ... company 
depended on the labor of Aleut hunters to collect sea otter pelts. [DOC] [TLE] The Japonski Island Lagoon The years during and subsequent to ... [PAR] Harbor Island is the smallest of the four named islands that surrounded the 
Lagoon .... They purchased Harbor island and built a small wharf and warehouse 
on the .... Alaska to the United States in 1867, the Russian American Company 
offered the ... Pelagic fur seal hunting, for the Sitka fleet, took place in the spring 
and the... [DOC] [TLE] United States Relations with Russia: Establishment of Relations to ... [PAR] Tsar Paul chartered the Russian America Company in 1799 to develop trade ... 
for the Russian American Company that claimed its monopoly on fur hunting, .... a 
deal to purchase Alaska from the Russian tsar for $7.2 million in March 1867. ... 
The expedition discovered three small islands, which were named Henrietta,... [DOC] [TLE] Aleut - Century of Servitude: Aleuts & the Reign of the Treasury Agent [PAR] The lease required the Alaska Commercial Company to foster these aims. ... The 
company set the Aleuts' rate of pay at 40 cents per seal skin, similar to the rate in 
the ... Staff on the islands included an agent in charge and three assistant agents. 
.... The Russian government had distinguished between two groups of natives... [DOC] [TLE] Aleut - Century of Servitude: From Russian to American Administration [PAR] The Pribilof Islands lie between the mainlands of Siberia and Alaska, about ... 
After the purchase the Pribilof fur trade operated similarly to that in other parts of 
Alaska. ... In 1867 and 1868 Pacific Coast companies plundered the seal 
rookeries. ... the free trade period, Russian fur hunters brutally mistreated the 
Aleuts and at... [DOC] [TLE] A HISTORY OF UNITED STATES ADMINISTRATION IN THE ... [PAR] 3 Population of St. Paul and St. George, 1867-1889  46 ... istration, the 
Government leased the fur sealing operation to private .... Gerasim Pribilof, a 
navigator for the Russian fur hunting company, Lebedev- ... St. George and St. 
Paul; and the island group as the Pribilofs. ..... effect

Question: In 1867 the U.S. bought this island group named for a Russian captain & leased it to seal hunting companies
Answer: Pribilof Islands