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The 1820 United States census was the fourth census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 7, 1820. The 1820 census included six new states: Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama and Maine. There has been a district wide loss of 1820 census records for Arkansas Territory, Missouri Territory, [1] and New Jersey.
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August 7 – The 1820 United States Census is conducted, eventually determining a population of 11,176,475. December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1820: James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed.
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John James Audubon lived in Mississippi from 1820 until 1823. [326] He heard Carolina wrens "singing from the roof of an abandoned flat-boat, fastened to the shore, a small distance below the city of New Orleans" and found them nesting on his friend's plantation at Bayou Sara. [327] (The Birds of America, 1827–1838)
Land in Mississippi was river bottomland rich in organic matter— "the Mississippi and Yazoo, the Tombigbee, Big Black, and the Pearl covered an area of over one-sixth of the entire state and offered unrivalled soil" [5] —and this land was primarily used to grow the highly valuable cash crop cotton produced with the labor of hundreds of thousands of enslaved American laborers of African ...
In 1817, the Alabama Territory was formed from the Mississippi Territory and was later admitted as a state in 1819. [12] The 1820 Census showed that the population of black people had increased by 1,517.8% to 42,450, with 41,879 slaves and 571 free blacks. [11]