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| 923,944 people | 1870 CE |
| 11,911,608 people | 1880 CE |
| 2,507,414 people | 1890 CE |
| 3,437,202 people | 1900 CE |
| 4,766,883 people | 1910 CE |
| 5,620,048 people | 1920 CE |
| 6,930,446 people | 1930 CE |
| 7,838,583 km2 | 1870 CE |
| 9,682,398 km2 | 1930 CE |
| 38,558,371 people | 1870 CE |
| 50,155,789 people | 1880 CE |
| 62,622,250 people | 1890 CE |
| 76,803,387 people | 1900 CE |
| 101,146,530 people | 1910 CE |
| 117,823,165 people | 1920 CE |
| 137,008,435 people | 1930 CE |
| Year Range | Us Reconstruction-Progressive (us_united_states_of_america_reconstruction) was in: |
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In terms of territory and population the polity became progressively more powerful and therefore the final year of the duration of the polity can be considered the peak date.
Inhabitants.New York was by far the settlement with the largest population during this period. Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB
Inhabitants.New York was by far the settlement with the largest population during this period. Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB
Inhabitants.New York was by far the settlement with the largest population during this period. Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB
Inhabitants.New York was by far the settlement with the largest population during this period. Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB
Inhabitants.New York was by far the settlement with the largest population during this period. Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB
Inhabitants.New York was by far the settlement with the largest population during this period. Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB
Inhabitants.New York was by far the settlement with the largest population during this period. Census records show the population as 923,944 in 1870, which had grown by 1930 to almost 7 million. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: xxi, 26. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB
in squared kilometers. Territory for the continental states and territories. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: 5-6. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/ZCSVU85S.
Polity population for the continental states and territories. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: 5-6. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB.
Polity population for the continental states and territories. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: 5-6. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB.
Polity population for the continental states and territories. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: 5-6. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB.
Polity population for the continental states and territories. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: 5-6. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB.
Polity population for the continental states and territories. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: 5-6. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB.
Polity population for the continental states and territories. [1]
[1]: US Census Bureau 1930: 5-6. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/AHQEFPXB.
levels.The US continental army was formed in 1775 to fight in the American Revolutionary War. In 1780 the ranks were reassigned as follows [1] : :Officer Ranks : 1. Commander-in-chief :: 2. Major General ::: 3. Brigadier General :::: Field Officers :::: 4. Colonel ::::: 5. Lieutenant Colonel :::::: 6. Major ::::::: Junior Officers ::::::: 7. Captain :::::::: 8. Subaltern ::::::::: Non-commissioned officers ::::::::: 9. Sergeant Major :::::::::: 10. Sergeant ::::::::::: 11. Corporal :::::::::::: Enlisted :::::::::::: 12. Private By the twentieth century, the ranks had changed little, but had expanded: [2] :Officer Ranks : 1. General of the Army :: 2. General ::: 3. Lieutenant General :::: 4. Major General ::::: 5. Brigadier General :::::: 6. Colonel ::::::: 7. Lieutenant Colonel :::::::: 8. Major ::::::::: 9. Captain :::::::::: 10. First Lieutenant ::::::::::: 11. Second Lieutenant :::::::::::: 12. Chief Warrant Officers 1-5 ::::::::::::: Enlisted Ranks ::::::::::::: 13. Sergeant Major of the Army :::::::::::::: 14. Command Sergeant Major ::::::::::::::: 15. Sergeant Major :::::::::::::::: 16. First Sergeant ::::::::::::::::: 17. Master Sergeant :::::::::::::::::: 18. Sergeant First Class ::::::::::::::::::: 19. Staff Sergeant :::::::::::::::::::: 20. Sergeant ::::::::::::::::::::: 21. Corporal :::::::::::::::::::::: 22. Specialist ::::::::::::::::::::::: 23. Private First Class :::::::::::::::::::::::: 24. Private
[1]: ’Continental Army’. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/VXB8B3A7
[2]: US Army Ranks. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/A2KG9JYI.
levels. [1] [2] [3] [4] :_Federal Government_ :Executive Branch : 1. President :: 2. The Cabinet (Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury etc) :::Legislative ::: 3. The Senate ::: 3.1 Committees ::: 3. House of Representatives ::::Judicial :::: 4. Supreme Court ::::: 4.1 Lower Federal Courts :::::_State Government_ :::::Executive ::::: 5. State Governor ::::::"Upper House / Senate" :::::: 6. Senator :::::: 6.1 Party Secretaries, committee staff, etc :::::::"Lower House / House of Representatives" ::::::: 7. Members of the House ::::::::_Local Government_ :::::::: 8. County governments / Town or township governments / Municipal governments / Mayors-Council. ::::::::: 9. Mayor / Commissioner :::::::::: 10. Governing board / City Manager ::::::::::: 11. Local authorities such as administrators, sheriffs, police etc.
[1]: Critchlow 2015: 18. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/YKCJXB2Y.
[2]: Volo and Volo 2004: 70. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
[3]: Politics of the United States. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/DNTMUYZ9.
[4]: Branches of the U.S. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/MNYMTVJB.
The capital had federal government buildings, the states and counties had their own government buildings.
Present across the US since preceding period. Markets were present across the polity.
Present since the preceding period. Icehouses were often shared between farms and houses and personal forms of food storage became available with the introduction of canning in 1825. Grains, rice and corn was stored locally for human and animal food supplies and also in preparation for shipping. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 53, 57, 166. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
Present across the US since preceding period. Wells, running water systems.
Present since the preceding period. Schools (common schools open to all children and private institutions for the wealthy). Colleges and universities were available for wealthy men, and some efforts were made to establish colleges that offered a higher education to wealthy women. Libraries, laboratories, observatories, scientific institutes, museums, archives etc. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 32, 53, 66, 86-89, 112. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
In the south of America, where there were sprawling plantations and few villages, there were few public houses available for travellers. Therefore, it was common for travellers to request lodging at a private home. Brothels and bordellos were common. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 13, 17. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
Roads were present across the US since preceding period. The government financed the building and maintaining of roads during this period as part of political promises to stimulate trade and migration. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 304-306. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
Ports were present across the US since the preceding period. There were ports all along the coast of the US such as Boston, Salem, Portland and Haven and inland ports such as Buffalo, Cleveland, Louisville, and Memphis. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 4-5. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
Scientists in the US were generally focussed on invention, mechanics, technology and medicine (in comparison to European theory). Drawings and explanations for inventions were submitted to the U.S. Patent Office. Findings on biological studies, such as Jeffries Wyman’s study of apes and gorillas were published. This study in particular contributed to Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Universities taught and published on a variety of sciences such as geology, chemistry, biology, astronomy and natural philosophy. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 43, 54, 96-97. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
The varied sects of Christianity across the US had their own religious texts to suit their beliefs e.g. The Mormon’s Book of Mormon. Sermons and religious essays were printed. There were also anti-Catholic texts printed. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 20-27, 31. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
Books on cemeteries, headstones, emblems and their meanings were popular. Manuals for young women on how to behave, dress, socialise, mourn etc, such as Godey’s Lady’s Book() and Martine’s Hand-Book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness (), as well as books specifically for mothers, such as Lydia Child’s Mother’s Book () and housekeepers, Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt-Book. Amelia Simmons was the first American author to write a cookbook, American Cookery, in 1796. Directions for Cookery, written by Eliza Leslie and published in 1837 was the most successful cookbook of the nineteenth century with sixty editions published. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 34, 36, 124, 178. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
There was a growing interest in history, particularly American history, such as and George Bancroft’s History of the United States which was published in ten annual instalments from 1834, and the biographies of presidents such as The Life of George Washington (1855) during this period. William Hickling Prescott became famous in the US and Europe for his histories in Ferdinand and Isabella (1838), Conquest of Mexico (1843) and Conquest of Peru (1847). In schools, books such as Frost’s United States History were studied. Historical journals such as the North America Review and The National Journal were established during this period. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 83, 236-237. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
Anti-Catholic literature such as Maria Monk’s Awful Discourses of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal (1834). Literature now considered as ‘American Classics’ such as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (). Less than 500 American-written titles were published in 1834, but by 1862 almost 4,000 were published, with romance, adventure and horror novels becoming increasingly popular. Poems, children’s stories, plays. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 31-32, 204, 211-216. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
Banks were present across the polity period since the preceding period.
In 1844 the Telegraph was invented, and as increasingly efficient and sophisticated methods of technology were created, over 23 thousand miles of telegraphs wires were hooked up across the US, allowing news to reach one end of the territory from another in the same day. Later forms of telegraph and the telephone led to instant communication. [1]
[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: xv, 51. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.
The United States Customary Units (USCS) were developed from the English measurement system and were standardised in 1824. e.g. cubic inch, cubic foot, fluid ounce, US pint, US cup, US gallon. [1]
[1]: ‘United States Customary Units’. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/K2R2BW5U.
The United States Customary Units (USCS) were developed from the English measurement system and were standardised in 1824. e.g square foot, square mile, acre, section. [1] Farmlands and plantations were divided into acres. While plantations could be many thousands of acres, family farm standards were 160 acres, which was initially set by the way territory was divided up in the Midwest, and later adopted by the government as a standard measurement. [2]
[1]: ‘United States Customary Units’. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/K2R2BW5U.
[2]: Volo and Volo 2004: 62-63. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.