[Answer] In what year did Alaska and Hawaii become states?

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...1. 1948 2. 1954 3. 1959 4. 1962

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1959 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s signed the Alaska Statehood Act to make Alaska the country's 49th state on January 3, 1959. The president did the same for the Hawaii Admission Act, which paved the way for Hawaii to join the Union on August 21, 1959. At the time, nearly a full half-century had passed since the U.S. had welcomed a new state. Although Alaska was purchased from Russia for $7.2 in 1867 and Hawaii was annexed in 1898, resistance to statehood was strong in Washington. Some argued that Alaska's remoteness and low population density made it a poor candidate for statehood, and American landowners in Hawaii lobbied against changing its status because they were able to underpay their workforce while it was only a territory. The strategic importance of Alaska and Hawaii during World War II brought new attention to the matter, but as territories, they were each allowed only one nonvoting member in the House of Representatives, and politicians from both sides of the aisle were concerned about losing power in Congress by admitting Alaska, with its then Democrat majority, or Hawaii, with its then-Republican leanings. It was only through a plan to balance out the influx of new congressmen by letting both in together that either were able to gain the support they needed.:

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