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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 ...
November 7 – The first of the Palmer Raids is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution: over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 different U.S. cities by the end of January 1920. November 9 – Felix the Cat appears in Feline Follies, making him the first cartoon character.
The total number of U.S. inhabitants in 1920 with national origins in quota countries was 89,506,558 so the national origins formula f expressed mathematically as f = n / 89,506,558 = q / 150,000 , where n is the number of inhabitants of any given national origin and q is the quota, hence to convert n into q required ...
The Reapportionment Act of 1929 (ch. 28, 46 Stat. 21, 2 U.S.C. § 2a), also known as the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929, is a combined census and apportionment bill enacted on June 18, 1929, that establishes a permanent method for apportioning a constant 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives according to each census.
October 7, 1919 South Carolina 7th: Asbury F. Lever (D) Resigned August 1, 1919, after becoming member of the Federal Farm Loan Board: Edward C. Mann (D) October 7, 1919 Oklahoma 5th: Joseph B. Thompson (D) Died September 18, 1919 John W. Harreld (R) November 8, 1919 Massachusetts 10th: John F. Fitzgerald (D) Lost contested election October 23 ...
The net effect of the many changes from the 1880 census (the larger population, the number of data items to be collected, the Census Bureau headcount, the volume of scheduled publications, and the use of Hollerith's electromechanical tabulators) was to reduce the time required to fully process the census from eight years for the 1880 census to ...
Ocoee was the home to 255 African-American residents and 560 white residents according to the 1920 Census. [3] The massacre took place on November 2, the day of the U.S. presidential election leaving a lasting political, but also community, impact; the 1930 census showed 1,180 whites, 11 Native Americans, and 2 African Americans (0.2%).
This left the allocations of the Act of 1911 in place until the 1930 census. The Reapportionment Act of 1929 established a method for reallocating seats among the states, given population shifts and the maximum of 435 representatives. [9] A 1941 amendment to the 1929 act made the apportionment process self-executing after each decennial census ...