Iowa , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...their hold was doomed after the United States acquired Iowa as part of the...the Illinois lands and cede to the United States much of their land along the...in the region had been ceded to the United States. Meanwhile, a great rush of frontiersmen...immigrants from Europe, notably Germans, Czechs, Dutch, and Scandinavians...Iowas rural life, and a group of German Pietists established the Amana Church...and Reform Movements Iowa became a state in 1846, and Ansel Briggs was elected...