Iowa Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Agricultural expansion, 1865β1930=== Following the Civil War, Iowa's population continued to grow dramatically, from 674,913 people in 1860<ref>[https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1864/dec/1860a.html "1860 Census: Population of the United States"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121165007/https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1864/dec/1860a.html |date=January 21, 2021 }}. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 7, 2019.</ref> to 1,624,615 in 1880.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1883/dec/vol-01-population.html|title=1880 Census: Volume 1. Statistics of the Population|website=The United States Census Bureau|access-date=April 14, 2020|archive-date=June 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611125326/https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1883/dec/vol-01-population.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The American Civil War briefly brought higher profits.<ref name="ec-ag">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/economics-agriculture|title=The Economics of Agriculture|date=July 25, 2016|website=Iowa PBS|access-date=April 15, 2020|archive-date=May 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521171513/http://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/economics-agriculture|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1917, the United States entered World War I and farmers as well as all Iowans experienced a wartime economy. For farmers, the change was significant. Since the beginning of the war in 1914, Iowa farmers had experienced economic prosperity, which lasted until the end of the war.<ref name="ec-ag" /> In the economic sector, Iowa also has undergone considerable change. Beginning with the first industries developed in the 1830s,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/types-business-and-industry|title=Types of Business and Industry|date=July 25, 2016|website=Iowa PBS|access-date=April 15, 2020|archive-date=June 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611114229/http://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/types-business-and-industry|url-status=live}}</ref> which were mainly for processing materials grown in the area,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/early-industry|title=Early Industry|date=July 25, 2016|website=Iowa PBS|access-date=April 15, 2020|archive-date=June 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611135435/http://www.iowapbs.org/iowapathways/mypath/early-industry|url-status=live}}</ref> Iowa has experienced a gradual increase in the number of business and manufacturing operations. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page