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The Iowa Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Iowa.

The Iowa Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:

Analysis
Critical Thinking
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
Order of Events
And Much More!

Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!

The 20 Iowa Primary Sources are:
Map of Fort Madison first permanent U. S. military fortification on the Upper Mississippi 1810
Illustration of Sauk Chief Black Hawk Indian leader during Black Hawk War of 1832
Small section of Pierre-Jean De Smets 1839 map of the Council Bluffs Region
Message from President John Tyler transmitting a letter to Congress from the governor of Iowa and a memorial from the Iowa legislative assembly asking that Iowa be admitted as a state into the Union 1844
Wood engraving depicting charge of the First Iowa Regiment at Battle of Wilsons Creek near Springfield, Missouri 1861
Photograph of Grenville Mellen Dodge Union Army officer in the Civil War, railroad executive who helped build the Transcontinental Railroad, and U. S Congressman from Iowa 1864
Poster advertising land for sale in Iowa and Nebraska 1872
Illustration of an Iowa farm in Muscatine County 1875
Photograph of Buffalo Bill Cody and Sitting Bull in 1885 Buffalo Bill was a U. S. Army scout, bison hunter, and showman born in Iowa
Engraving of the Coal Palace in Ottumwa exhibition center built to showcase the coal industry in the area 1890
Postcard of butter sculpture of a boy, cow, and calf Iowa State Fair 1904
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