You will likely have to scroll up a page or two or three to find the right page. Provo, UT: Ancestry, Memories Overview Gallery People Find. Sign in Create Account. Family Tree. From FamilySearch Wiki. United States. Virgin Islands. This website requires a paid subscription for full access. Category : United States Census. Navigation menu Personal tools English. Namespaces Page Talk. Views Read View source View history. Submit Wiki Content Report a Problem. Enumerators were out in the field taking the answers to the questions they asked until November of that year.
The results determined that the population of the United States at the time of the census was about This was a The population count included nearly 4 million slaves. The nation was already moving toward the Civil War by the time the results of the US federal census were available to be tabulated.
Because of this, the supervisor of the census, Joseph C. Kennedy, instructed his office to only produce abbreviated public reports, without any graphics or cartography, as had been customary in previous censuses. The exception to this was the production of a cartographic display that included maps of the southern states. These maps were given to Union field commanders. The maps had information on them that was important to the Union army, including where predominantly white populations were, where concentrations of slaves were, the locations of primarily agricultural areas, and the locations of postal roads and trains.
This census was a success for the city of Philadelphia, which regained its former position as the second most populous US city next to New York City , a position it lost to Baltimore in However, it lost the title again in , this time permanently, to the city of Chicago. Census enumerators for the US federal census were given instructions to record the names of every person in a household, not just the heads of households, something that had begun being done in the census.
Relationships between members of a household were not shown, which was something that did not begin being recorded until the census. Categories of information that were recorded in the US federal census include, for each member of a household, regardless of age or marital status:. Census of manufactures Census of population Manufactures of the United States in : compiled from the original returns of the eighth census, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Population of the United States in compiled from the original returns of the eight census under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by Joseph C. Kennedy, Superintendent of census. Analytical introduction discusses the following: population of the United States, slavery, Indian slavery, manumission of slaves, fugitive slaves, area and density of population, population at the military ages, sex, immigration, dwellings, nativity, internal migration, marriages, births, mortality, population of foreign countries, the deaf and dumb, deaf and dumb and blind, the blind, and the insane.
Statistical tables for each State and Territory include: 1. Population by age, sex, and color according to counties; 2. Population by color and condition free, colored and slave by counties; 3. Population by color and sex of cities and towns and other subdivisions; 4.
Free population, native and foreign, by counties. Nativities of the free population.
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