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The 1920 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau during one month from January 5, 1920, determined the resident population of the United States to be 106,021,537, an increase of 15.0 percent over the 92,228,496 persons enumerated during the 1910 census. The 1920 Census was determined for 1 January 1920. The actual date of the ...
When the United States declared independence in 1776, Philadelphia was its most populous city. By the time the first U.S. census count was completed in 1790, New York City had already grown to be 14% more populous than Philadelphia (though Philadelphia still had the larger metropolitan population in 1790).
January 16: Prohibition in the United States begins. January 2 – First Red Scare: The second of the Palmer Raids takes place with another 4,025 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial in several cities. January 5 – 1920 United States Census count begins. This becomes the first census to record a population ...
The United States historically had few Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans, especially before the late 20th century. [5] Most Asian Americans [5] historically lived in the Western United States. [11] [12] The Hispanic and Asian population of the United States has rapidly increased in the late 20th and 21st centuries, and the African ...
In 1959, the United States Census Bureau estimated that 47% of all brides marrying for their first time were teenagers aged 19 and under. In 1955, 51.2% of women were married by their 20th birthday and 88% by their 25th birthday; 40.3% of men and 28.5% of women aged 20–24 in 1955 had never married, down from 77.8% for men and 57.4% for women ...
People with Mexican heritage would not have a major presence in Iowa until about 1920. In 1900, the federal census recorded only 29 people with Mexican nativity. The number increased to 620 in ...
Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state. [a] Since 1920, the "total population" of the United States has been considered the population of all the States and the District of Columbia; territories and other possessions were counted as additional ...
1920s: The Spanish Flu. In the fall of 1918, a mutated version of the virus that claimed its first victims in the spring made its way around the world, causing the death rate to escalate quickly ...