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2 African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020) Toggle African-American proportion of state and territory populations (1790–2020) subsection 2.1 Free blacks as a percentage out of the total black population by U.S. region and U.S. state between 1790 and 1860
The 1865 State of the Union Address was written by historian George Bancroft and read to the Congress by Robert Johnson, the son and personal secretary of the 17th president of the United States, Andrew Johnson. [1]
He described the nation's potential with "a territory unsurpassed in fertility" and "a population of 40,000,000 free people." He celebrated Reconstruction successes, noting that seven states had been restored to the Union and urging Congress to address violations in Georgia, where African American legislators had been unseated. [1]
According to census information for 2010–2014, an estimated 180,657 people in Boston (28.2% of Boston's population) are Black/African American, either alone or in combination with another race. 160,342 (25.1% of Boston's population) are Black/African American alone. 14,763 (2.3% of Boston's population) are White and Black/African American ...
Who delivered the first State of the Union address? George Washington on Jan. 8, 1790, in New York. Does it have to be a speech? No. For his first address on Dec. 8, 1801, Thomas Jefferson sent ...
This was the first time since 1801 that such an address was made in person before a joint session of Congress, [1] initiating the modern trend with regard to the State of the Union address. [2] The State of the Union Address (sometimes abbreviated to SOTU) is an annual message delivered by the president of the United States to a joint session ...
A black '1870' pin to be worn by members of the Congressional Black Caucus and others at the State of the Union address Tuesday night. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos courtesy of the ...
The Massachusetts State Monument on the Antietam Battlefield. In all, 12,976 servicemen from Massachusetts died during the war, about eight percent of those who enlisted and about one percent of the state's population (the population of Massachusetts in 1860 was 1,231,066). [38] Official statistics are not available for the number of wounded.