Comparatively recently, the news media was abuzz about one of President Trump’s more “outside the box” ideas for the United States to acquire the island of Greenland.
Although this proposal seems like a new idea, there have been a number of efforts by past American governments to convince the Danish government to sell the island.
In 1867, Secretary of State William Seward tried to convince the Danish government to sell Greenland to the United States but his offer of $5.5 million was never formally approved by either the U.S. Congress or Danish government.
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