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While the South still attracted immigrants from Europe, the North attracted far more during the early-to-mid 1800s, such that by the time of the American Civil War, the population of the North far exceeded the non-enslaved population of the South per the 1860 United States census.
The total population included 3,953,760 slaves. By the time the 1860 census returns were ready for tabulation, the nation was sinking into the American Civil War. As a result, Census Superintendent Joseph C. G. Kennedy and his staff produced only an abbreviated set of public reports, without graphic or cartographic representations. The ...
21 cze 2024 · For example, in the final census before the war in 1860, the five largest states in the South had around one million inhabitants each, while the largest states in the North had three to four ...
26 gru 2022 · By 1870, state populations ranged from 4.4 million in New York to just 42,000 in Nevada (up considerably, though, from the mere 7,000 residents it had in 1860, before it became a state).
27 cze 2024 · Chart of the Population of the Northern States and the Southern States, 1790–1860; Michael F. Conlin; Book: The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War; Online publication: 28 June 2019; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108575522.009
15 wrz 2022 · As the institution of slavery expanded, the importance of slavery to the South’s economy grew. In 1860, just a year before the start of the Civil War, there were four million enslaved African Americans. Only 500,000 African Americans in the entire US population were not enslaved.
Nearly 21 million people lived in 23 Northern states. The South claimed just 9 million people — including 3.5 million slaves — in 11 confederate states. Despite the North's greater population, however, the South had an army almost equal in size during the first year of the war.
