United States

CHAPTER XXVII. STATE OF THE COUNTRY FROM 1840 TO 1860

 

POPULATION. - In the twenty years which had elapsed since 1840 the population of our country had risen to over 31,000,000. In New York alone there were, in 1860, about as many people as lived in the whole United States in 1789.

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains

 

by Charles A. Eastman

 

History of California

 

by Helen Elliott Bandini

Formation of the Union, 1750-1829

 

by Albert Bushnell Hart

 

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