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1 day ago · The overwhelming majority of Southern Irish were Protestant, as there were only 60,000 Catholics in the United States in 1790, 1.6% of the population. Many U.S. Catholics were descendants of English Catholic settlers in the 17th century, and the rest were Irish, German and some Acadians who remained.
2 days ago · Since the 18th century, the growth of first British and American power was in large part due to the extraordinary demographic growth of these societies. In 1750, France had an estimated population of 24.5 million and England a mere 5.8 million. A century later, England had reached 16.7 million, or over half the French population.
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1 day ago · In 1900, when the U.S. population was 76 million, there were 66.8 million white Americans in the United States, representing 88% of the total population, 8.8 million Black Americans, with about 90% of them still living in Southern states, and slightly more than 500,000 Hispanics.
- 86.16/sq mi (33.27/km²)
- 0.4% (2022)
- 1.665 children born/woman (2022)
- 340,458,130 (est. 2023)
2 days ago · The U.S. Census Bureau's Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012 ranks Detroit first among all 71 U.S. cities for which rates were calculated in percentage of the city's population living below the poverty level. The individual rate living below the poverty level is 36.4%; the family rate is 31.3%.
2 days ago · 1679 Salem house, size 24'x18', to be built for £12. 1679 Boston house, size 34'x20', to be built for £130. 1733 Record describes a 16x22 dwelling house to be built in Cambridge MA for £61and a 20x24 house for £65.The latter ended up 4 feet wider than planned and cost £80 including labor.
- Marie Concannon
- 2012
5 days ago · Wages in the United States, 1780-1789. Building-trades wages - 1600s through 1836. Lists wages of early American bricklayers, carpenters, masons, etc. in British currency and Spanish dollars (more on exchange rates here). Source: U.S. Dept. of Labor rept., p. 5. Farm labor daily wages - Vermont, 1780-1820s.
3 days ago · John J. Navin offers a new account of the first half century of settlement in the colony of South Carolina, which he characterizes as The Grim Years.By the mid-18th century South Carolina would become the wealthiest British colony in mainland North America, but in recent years scholars long familiar with its distinctive plantation system have turned more attention to these earlier, formative ...
