Iowa , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Railroads, and Reform Movements Iowa became a state in 1846, and Ansel...that same year the state adopted its second...years earlier the states first railroad line...slaves escape to free states, was active in Iowa, and the abolitionist John Brown made his...West, the Granger movement , the Greenback party...some success in the state. Granger laws were...on a visit to the United States in 1959, Nikita...