PEOPLE AND EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF ALASKA

State Nickname of Alaska.

• The Northern Lights

• The Big Deeper

• The Last Frontier

• The Land of the Free

State Motto of Alaska.

• North to the Future

• Back to the Future

• Work for the Future

• Free for the Future

The First Capital of Alaska

• Juneau

• Anchorage

• Sitka

• Kodiak

The population in Juneau.

• 33, 722

• 33, 772

• 33, 277

• 33, 727

He was sent by Tzar Peter the Great to explore the North Pacific.

• Alexei Chirikof

• George Wilhelm Steller

• Juan Perez

• Vitus Bering

The First naturalist to visit Alaska aboard the second expedition of Bering.

• Alexander Baranov

• Vitus Bering

• Juan Perez

• George Wilhelm Steller

The first Russian Orthodox Church is established at ________.

• Anchorage

• Kodiak

• Bethel

• Sitka

The man who saw land in Southeast Alaska while on board of Bering's expedition on July 15, 1741 .

• Alexei Chirikof

• Vitus Bering

• George Vancouver

• Alejandro Malaspina

He was ordered by Spain to explore west coast of Alaska.

• Alexei Chirikof

• Vitus Bering

• Alejandro Malaspina

• Juan Perez

He established the first permanent non-Native settlement at Three Saints Bay, Kodiak.

• Alexei Chirikof

• Grigorii Shelikhov

• Alexander Baranov

• Juan Perez