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The 1860 United States census was the eighth census conducted in the United States starting June 1, 1860, and lasting five months. It determined the population of the United States to be 31,443,321 [ 1 ] in 33 states and 10 organized territories.
b ^ While all Native Americans in the United States were only counted as part of the (total) U.S. population since 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau previously either enumerated or made estimates of the non-taxed Native American population (which was not counted as a part of the U.S. population before 1890) for the 1860–1880 time period.
Between 1880 and 1900, the urban population of the United States rose from 28% to 40%, and reached 50% by 1920, in part due to 9,000,000 European immigrants. After 1890 the US rural population began to plummet, as farmers were displaced by mechanization and forced to migrate to urban factory jobs.
As the United States has grown in area and population, new states have been formed out of U.S. territories or the division of existing states. The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state.
1860 (half in the US and half in Canada) Emmanuel Domenech [70] 20b NE Woodlands Ontario, Canada Ojibwe in Canada 18,000 1860 (half in the US and half in Canada) Emmanuel Domenech [70] 21a Great Plains Louisiana Purchase Assiniboine in the US 17,500 1823 15+ (ca. half in the US, ca. 1,500 lodges) W. H. Keating and G. C. Beltrami: 21b Great Plains
Though they successfully avoided being conquered by guns, the indigenous peoples had little defense against germs. Diseases introduced by European contact would decimate the native population in the ensuing decades, [14] leading to the near-total collapse of every established culture across peninsular Florida. Between this depopulation and the ...
In less than ten years, the buffalo population is dramatically reduced, and the animal remains an endangered species for much of the next century. [133] The Utah Territorial Assembly, supported by Brigham Young, grants women the right to vote. Over the next several decades, this provides Mormons with an added margin of political power. [133] Jan
Eleven were destroyed or severely damaged by war action, including Atlanta (with an 1860 population of 9,600), Charleston, Columbia, and Richmond (with prewar populations of 40,500, 8,100, and 37,900, respectively). The eleven contained 115,900 people in the 1860 census, or 14% of the urban South.