Iowa , State, United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Dubuque, Loras College, and Clarke College, at Dubuque. History European...their hold was doomed after the United States acquired Iowa as part of...the Illinois lands and cede to the United States much of their land along...the region had been ceded to the United States. Meanwhile, a great rush of frontiersmen...the establishment of a number of colleges and universities. Statehood, Railroads, and Reform Movements Iowa became a state in 1846, and Ansel Briggs was elected...