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in the Iowa Guide:

• Most US settlers didn’t start arriving until after the Black Hawk War ended in 1833. The Sauk and Fox were forced off their land, opening up the area for US expansion.
• Iowans turned out in droves to support the Union’s Civil War effort—at least 75,000 enlisted.

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in the Pennsylvania guide:

• In 1681, British King Charles II chartered the land to William Penn in repayment of a debt owed Penn’s father. The king dubbed the colony Pennsylvania, Latin for “Penn’s Woods.”

• Pennsylvania didn’t have any official state censuses, but it did take a “Septennial Census” every seven years from 1779 to 1863. Find surviving records on Ancestry.com.

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in the Michigan guide:

• Michigan’s plentiful land, as well as agricultural, lumber, mining, and shipping employment opportunities, attracted a flood of immigrants between 1830 and 1860.
• The state took several of its own territorial or state censuses from 1827 to 1894. Michiganology hosts free searchable collections of these enumerations.

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in the Arkansas guide:

• In 1686, the French founded Arkansas Post, the state’s first permanent white settlement. France and Spain took turns occupying Arkansas until 1803, when the United States acquired it in the Louisiana Purchase.
• Find Arkansas newspapers from 1819 to the present at the digital archives.

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