Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland." It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New France. After the Louisiana Purchase, settlers laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the heart of the Corn Belt. Iowa is often known as the "Food Capital of the World". Des Moines is Iowa's capital and largest city.
Iowa in The Guns of the South[]
Iowa remained part of the Union during the Second American Revolution.
During the 1864 presidential election, it was one of 12 states carried by incumbent Republican President Abraham Lincoln during his unsuccessful reelection campaign.[1] The state had eight electoral votes during the election.
Iowa in Southern Victory[]
Cincinnatus, Elizabeth, and Achilles Driver left Kentucky for Iowa after becoming citizens of the U.S. at the end of the Great War.
U.S. President Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa, in 1874.
Iowa in Supervolcano[]
The Yellowstone Supervolcano eruption was so powerful that there was volcanic ash falling as far east as Iowa.[2] This effectively wiped out the harvest in America's breadbasket for that year since the amount of ash was enough to bury crops in the fields, cover roads, train tracks and silos along with choke the engines of tractors, harvesters and trucks.[3]
See also[]
- Mississippi (The Two Georges), for Iowa in The Two Georges.
References[]
- ↑ The Guns of the South, appendices.
- ↑ Eruption, pg. 218.
- ↑ Ibid, pg. 223.
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