The first U.S. census was taken in 1790.
It included six questions and recorded a population of 3,929,214 persons, of whom 3,172,006 were white and 757,208 were black.
The white population was evenly divided between males and females-1,615,434 males, 1,556,572 females.
Virginia was the most populous state, with 747,610 inhabitants.
U.S. military expenditures during Reagan’s first term totalled $1.5 trillion dollars. Between 1981 and 1986, the U.S. national debt doubled, expanding from $1 trillion to $2 trillion.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is at the National Football Museum in Canton, Ohio.
In 1989, 76.9 percent of the U.S. population aged 25 and over has completed high school. Only 21.1 percent has completed college.
In the nineteenth century, the district known as Harlem in northern Manhattan was a fashionable white residential district, a favorite site for summer homes. Apartment buildings rose in the boom of the 1880s. After the panic of 1893, however, many buildings became vacant, and property owners began renting to blacks. By World War I, much…
Four state capitals are named after presidents. They are Jackson, Mississippi; Jefferson City, Missouri; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Madison, Wisconsin.
The first political party in America was the Federalist Party, founded in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Around the same time, Thomas Jefferson built a rival organization that became known as the Republican or Democratic-Republican Party.