Providing a Government
What big purchase was Iowa part of?
What is the louisiana purchase
What animal made out of butter is a big attraction at the Iowa State Fair?
What is a cow?
In the 19th Century older boys stayed out of school to help their fathers with what?
Farm Work
The location of Iowa's first capital city
Iowa City
"Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain" is Iowa's what?
State motto
What Iowa native is the Mason City's Music Man Square named for?
Merdith wilson
What did most one room school houses have to keep students warm?
What is a wood burning stove?
Who was the only football player from Iowa to win the Heisman trophy?
Kinneck
What are two major crops in Iowa
What are corn and soybeans
Name on of the statues in Mason City.
paper boy, beaver, bear, humpty dumpty etc..
The first state university in Iowa was what institution?
University of Iowa
What is the oldest city in the state? (hint: it starts with the letter D, and lies on the Mississippi River)
Dubuque
What was the location of Iowa's first capital city?
Iowa City
What two rivers border Iowa?
What are the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers?
In the 1800s and early 1900s what was the punishment for students who did not follow the rules in school? Or what was the punishment if a student gave a wrong answer?
Sit in the corner wearing a dunce hat, hit with a stick, clean the classroom.
Who was the only U.S. President who was born in Iowa?
Herbert Hoover
What were the two parts of Iowa's Legislature?
what are the house and senate? General assembly
What is the state capital?
What is Des Moines?
The _______________ was usually a wooden board painted black
The Blackboard
What are the states that border Iowa? There are 6. Name any 2
Nebraska, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri