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Metadata

Object Name

Book

Source

Teaching Iowa History Team

Iowa History Era Tag

Prosperity to the Depression (1897-1939)

Chronological Tag

Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

Catalog Number

2018.045.355

Author

Shambaugh, Benjamin Franklin

Title

History of the Constitutions of Iowa

Summary

This book contains the history of Iowa's constitution's and the struggles it took to ratify Iowa as a state. The Table of Contents includes topics such as: different territories, various constitutions, Iowa's statehood, and conventions after statehood.

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2018.031.001 Surveyor's Compass
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This book can be linked to the following standard:

Standard SS.8.25 Iowa Government: A lesson could be created on the struggle for statehood. Another lesson could be made on the constitutions, both passed and rejected, leading up to Iowa's statehood.

Published Date

1902

Publisher

Historical Dept. of Iowa

Published Place

Des Moines, Iowa

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