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Iowa Important Dates


Important Dates in Iowa History

  • 1803 The United States acquired the area from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase.
  • 1803 - 1832 The Iowa area remained Indian land and was not open to legal settlement.
  • 1833 The first permanent white settlements were made in eastern Iowa. Between 1833 and 1851 a series of treaties extinguished Indian claims to the land.
  • 1834 Congress attached the area to the Michigan Territory.
  • 1836 Iowa was transferred to the Wisconsin Territory.
  • 1838 The Iowa Territory was established. It included all of present-day Iowa and Minnesota, as well as parts of North and South Dakota.
  • 1846 Iowa, with its present boundaries, became a state.
  • 1850 - 1860 The population of Iowa nearly tripled, as immigrants poured in from the older midwestern states.
  • 1861 - 1865 Over 75,000 Iowans served in the Union armed forces during the Civil War.

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