Iowa’s ABCBy: Shea Vermillion

A is for Adventureland Adventureland opened in the year of 1974. In 2005,a “girl in a cage being carried by a gorilla’’

effect character was seen to roam the park.The gorilla’s name was Gilda.Offer her a banana and She’ll release the girl in the cage.

In 2010 Adventureland completed it’s new water park Adventure Bay and it includes 20 waterslides, Iowa’s longest Lazy River.

B is for Black Squirrels

The black squirrels is a melanistic subgroup of the Eastern Grey Squirrel.

They are common in the Midwestern United States, Ontario, Quebec, and in parts of the Northeastern United States and Britain.

C is for Chief Black Hawk

Black Hawk was a leader and warrior of the Sack American Tribe in what is now the United States.

During the war of 1812, Black Hawk fought on the side of the British.

D is for Des Moines

Des Moines is the capital and the most populous city in the US state of Iowa.

Des Moines is an important city in United States presidential politics as the capital of Iowa, which is home to the Iowa caucuses.

E is for Electricity

Iowa has a wire-less “or wifi” all around.Wifi and wire-less internet accesses is made from electric shocks in the satellite in space.

Ben Franklin used a kite and put a key on it and then he let it go into the sky and it got struck by lighting which became electricity.

F is for Farming

Farming was once the chief way of life in nearly every country.

People can’t live without food,and nearly all their food comes from crops and animals.

G is for Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe world wide economic depression in the decade preceding World War 2.

Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 25% and in some countries rose as high as 33%.

H is for Hawkeye State

The Hawkeye State is a popular nickname for the state of Iowa.

Mr.Edwards changed the name of his Burling ton newspaper,The Iowa Patriot, to Hawk-eye and Iowa Patriot in tribute to his friend Chief Black Hawk.

I is for Iowa State Fair The Iowa State Fair is an annual state fair held in

Des Moines, Iowa. Since 1854, the Iowa State Fair has been entertaining

Iowans on a yearly basis with only a few exceptions.

J is for John Wayne John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa. His real name was Marion Robert

Morrison. He died at the age of 72 on June

11,1979.

K is for Keokuk

Keokuk was a chief of the Sauk or Sac tribe in central North America.

Chief Keokuk had not opposed the advance of the white men and Keokuk his followers eventually moved west of the Mississippi River.

L is for Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by

the United States of America of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana in 1803.

The purchase, which doubled the size of the United States, comprises around 23% of current U.S. territory.

M is for Mesquakie

The Mesquakie are a Native American people often known to outsiders as the Fox tribe.

Mesquakie live along the Saint Lawrence River in present day Ontario, east of Michigan

N is for Norwegian Indians

Norwegian people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in United States, Canada and Brazil.

Today, the descendants of these people are known as Norwegian Indians.

O is for Oak Tree

Oaks have spirally arranged leaves, with a lobed margin in many species; some have serrated leaves or entire leaves with a smooth margin.

Many deciduous species are marcescent, not dropping dead leaves until spring.

P is for Prairie Prairie are considered part of the temperate

grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

Lands typically referred to as "prairie" tend to be in North America.

Q is for Quaker Oats Quaker Oats was founded in 1901 by the merger of

four oat mills. In the 1970s, the company financed the making of the

film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, obtaining in return a licence to use a number of the product names mentioned in the movie for candy bars.

R is for Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was a network of secret

routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

Harriet Tubman helped the slaves get away from their owners to get to the Underground Railroad.

S is for Squirrel Cage Jail Built in 1888-89 and used until 1975, the unusual

rotary jail in Gallatin, MO, is one of only three known to yet exist.

Prisoners were constantly behind iron bars even while the jailer used a hand crank to align each cell.

T is for Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the United States.

He remained a widower for the rest of his life after his wife of eleven years, Martha Jefferson died in childbirth.

U is for Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States.

It was constructed westwardly from Council Bluffs to meet the Central Pacific line, which was constructed eastwardly from San Francisco Bay.

V is for Villisca Axe Murders The Villisca Axe Murders occurred in June

1912 in the southwestern Iowa town of Villisca. All eight victims, including six children, had

severe head wounds from an axe. A lengthy investigation yielded several

suspects, one of which was tried twice and acquitted and the crime remains unsolved.

W is for Wild Rose

Wild Rose is the common name of certain flowering shrubs.

The Iowa Legislature designated the Wild Rose as the official state flower in 1897.

X is for X-Ray X-radiation is a form of electromagnetic

radiation. As a result, the term X-ray is metonymically used

to refer to a radiographic image produced using this method, in addition to the method itself.

Y is for Young Brigham Brigham Young was an American leader in

the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States.

Young also led the foundings of the precursors to the University of Utah and Brigham Young University.

Z is for Blank Park Zoo Blank Park Zoo is a zoo on the south side

of Des Moines, Iowa near Fort Des Moines. In late June 2007, the Zoo, The Greater Des

Moines Leadership Institute and hundreds of volunteers around Des Moines built the new Kids' Kingdom playground.

Please don`t leave my owners might find out that I chewed their clothes and lock me in my kennel.