The population U.S. population rose by 13.4% between 1960 and 1970, bringing numbers up to 203.4 million, and marked the first census year since 1800 that New York was not the most populous state ...

August 2, 1790: New Nation Comes to Its Census 1790: In keeping with a tradition at least as old as the Romans and constitutionally mandated by the Founding Fathers, the first U.S. Census begins.

When U.S. marshals went out on horseback, beginning in 1790, to take the first census, they counted 3.9 million people at an overall cost of $45,000.

The census reflected the values of the United States in 1790: “Slaves were counted as three-fifths of a person. Indians weren’t counted until 1870,” Glass writes.

Since the first U.S. census in 1790, ... Ohio and West Virginia filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to ban the bureau from including in those official numbers residents without legal status and ...

From the moment of the first American census, in 1790, through every decennial census we've had since, the categories the U.S. government has used to classify its residents have included the word ...

Here are some notable ways the population was counted before the first U.S. census in 1790: Incan Quipu: Instead of counting with tally marks, Incans lined up quipu or threads (made out of llama ...