ART. XII.--All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts
contracted by or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling
of the United States, in pursuance of the present Confederation, shall
be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for
payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States and the public
faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
ART. XIII.--Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United
States, in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this
Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this
Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union
shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be
made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress
of the United Stares, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of
every State.
AND WHEREAS it hath pleased the great Governor of the world to incline
the hearts of the Legislatures we respectively represent in Congress to
approve of, and to authorize us to ratify, the said Articles of
Confederation and perpetual Union, know ye, that we, the undersigned
delegates, by virtue of the power and authority to us given for that
purpose, do, by these presents, in the name and in behalf of our
respective constituents, fully and entirely ratify and confirm each and
every of the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union, and all
and singular the matters and things therein contained. And we do further
solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents,
that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States, in
Congress assembled, on all questions which by the said Confederation are
submitted to them; and that the Articles thereof shall be inviolably
observed by the States we respectively represent, and that the Union
shall be perpetual. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands
in Congress. Done at Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, the
ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord 1778, and in the third year
of the Independence of America.
III
THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
THE following preamble and specifications, known as the Declaration of
Independence, accompanied the resolution of Richard Henry Lee, which was
adopted by Congress on the 2d day of July, 1776. This declaration was
agreed to on the 4th, and the transaction is thus recorded in the
Journal for that day:
"Agreeably to the order of the day, the Congress resolved itself into a
committee of the whole, to take into their further consideration the
Declaration; and, after some time, the president resumed the chair, and
Mr. Harrison reported that the committee have agreed to a Declaration,
which they desired him to report. The Declaration being read, was agreed
to as follows:"
A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people
to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal
station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should
declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident--that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That,
to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any
form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of
the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government,
laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in
such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long
established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and,
accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to
suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train
of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces
a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it
is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards
for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these
colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter
their former systems of government. The history of the present king of
Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over
these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.
1. He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
2. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing
importance, unless suspended in their operations till his assent should
be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend
to them.
3. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large
districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of
representation in the Legislature--a right inestimable to them, and
formidable to tyrants only.
4. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual,
uncomfortable, and distant from the repository of their public records,
for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his
measures.
5. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly, for opposing, with
manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people.
6. He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause
others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of
annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise;
the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of
invasions from without, and convulsions within.
7. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that
purpose obstructing the laws for the naturalization of foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither, and raising
the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
8. He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his
assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers.
9. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure on
their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
10. He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of
officers, to harass our people and eat out their substance.
11. He has kept among us in times of peace, standing armies, without the
consent of our Legislatures.
12. He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior
to, the civil power.
13. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign
to our constitutions, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent
to their acts of pretended legislation;
14. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
15. For protecting them, by a mock trial, from punishment for any
murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States;
16. For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world;
17. For imposing taxes on us without our consent;
18. For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of a trial by jury;
19. For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offenses;
20. For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring
province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging
its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument
for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies.
21. For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and
altering, fundamentally, the forms of our governments.
22. For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves
invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
23. He has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his
protection, and waging war against us.
24. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, and
destroyed the lives of our people.
25. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries
to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun
with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the
most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized
nation.
26. He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high
seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of
their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
27. He has excited domestic insurrection among us, and has endeavored to
bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages,
whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all
ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in
the most humble terms; our repeated petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act
which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in our attentions to our British brethren. We
have warned them, from time to time, of attempts by their legislature to
extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of
the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have
appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured
them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations,
which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence.
They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity.
We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our
separation, and hold them as we hold the rest of mankind--enemies in
war; in peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America in
general Congress assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world
for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the name and by the
authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and
declare that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free
and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to
the British crown, and that all political connection between them and
the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved, and
that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war,
conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other
acts and things which independent Stales may of right do. And for the
support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of
Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our
fortunes, and our sacred honor.
The foregoing declaration was, by order of Congress, engrossed, and
signed by the following members:
JOHN HANCOCK.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton.
MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry.
RHODE ISLAND.
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery.
CONNECTICUT.
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott.
NEW YORK.
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris.
NEW JERSEY.
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart,
Abraham Clark.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George
Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross.
DELAWARE.
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas M'Kean.
MARYLAND.
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
VIRGINIA.
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison,
Thomas Nelson, Jun., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton.
NORTH CAROLINA.
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn.
SOUTH CAROLINA. Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jun.,
Thomas Lynch, Jun., Arthur Middleton.
GEORGIA.
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton.
IV-
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES
NAMES STATE PARTY YEARS VICE-PRESIDENT
1 George Washington Virginia All Parties 1789-1797 John Adams
2 John Adams Mass Federalist 1797-1801 Thomas Jefferson
3 Thomas Jefferson Virginia Republican 1801-1809 Aaron Burr
George Clinton
4 James Madison Virginia Republican 1809-1817 George Clinton
Elbridge Gerry
5 James Monroe Virginia Republican 1817-1825 Daniel D. Tompkins
6 John Quincy Adams Mass Republican 1825-1829 John C. Calhoun
7 Andrew Jackson Tennessee Democratic 1829-1837 John C. Calhoun
Martin Van Buren
8 Martin Van Buren New York Democratic 1837-1841 Richard M. Johnson
9 William H. Harrison Ohio Whig 1841-1841 John Tyler
10 John Tyler Virginia (Whig) 1841-1845
11 James K. Polk Tennessee Democratic 1845-1849 George M. Dallas
12 Zachary Taylor Louisiana Whig 1849-1850 Millard Fillmore
13 Millard Fillmore New York Whig 1850-1853
14 Franklin Pierce New Hamp Democratic 1853-1857 William R. King
15 James Buchanan Penns Democratic 1857-1861 J. C. Breckenridge
16 Abraham Lincoln Illinois Republican 1861-1865 Hannibal Hamlin
Andrew Johnson
17 Andrew Johnson Tennessee (Republican) 1865-1869
18 Ulysses S. Grant Illinois Republican 1869-1877 Schuyler Colfax
Henry Wilson
19 Rutherford B. Hayes Ohio Republican 1877-1881 William A. Wheeler
20 James A. Garfield Ohio Republican 1881-1881 Chester A. Arthur
21 Chester A. Arthur New York Republican 1881-1885
22 Grover Cleveland New York Democratic 1885-1889 Thomas A. Hendricks
23 Benjamin Harrison Indiana Republican 1889-1893 Levi P. Morton
24 Grover Cleveland New York Democratic 1893-1897 Adlai E. Stevenson
25 William McKinley Ohio Republican 1897-1901 Garret A. Hobart
Theodore Roosevelt
26 Theodore Roosevelt New York Republican 1901-1909 Charles W. Fairbanks
27 William H. Taft Ohio Republican 1909-1913 James S. Sherman
V--
STATES ADMITTED INTO THE UNION
RATIFIED THE CONSTITUTION
1. Delaware December 7, 1787
2. Pennsylvania December 12, 1787
3. New Jersey December 18, 1787
4. Georgia January 2, 1788
5. Connecticut January 9, 1788
6. Massachusetts February 6, 1788
7. Maryland April 28, 1788
8. South Carolina May 23, 1788
9. New Hampshire June 21, 1788
10. Virginia June 25, 1788
11. New York July 26, 1788
12. North Carolina November 21, 1789
13. Rhode Island May 29, 1790
ADMITTED INTO THE UNION
14. Vermont March 4, 1791
15. Kentucky June 1, 1792
16. Tennessee June 1, 1796
17. Ohio November 29, 1802
18. Louisiana April 30, 1812
19. Indiana December 11, 1816
20. Mississippi December 10, 1817
21. Illinois December 3, 1818
22. Alabama December 14, 1819
23. Maine March 15, 1820
24. Missouri August 10, 1821
25. Arkansas June 15, 1836
26. Michigan January 26, 1837
27. Florida March 3, 1845
28. Texas December 29, 1845
29. Iowa December 28, 1846
30. Wisconsin May 29, 1848
31. California September 9, 1850
32. Minnesota May 11, 1858
33. Oregon February 14, 1859
34. Kansas January 29, 1861
35. West Virginia June 19, 1863
36. Nevada October 31, 1864
37. Nebraska March 1, 1867
38. Colorado August 1, 1876
39. North Dakota November 3, 1889
40. South Dakota November 3, 1889
41. Montana November 8, 1889
42. Washington November 11, 1889
43. Idaho July 3, 1890
44. Wyoming July 10, 1890
45. Utah January 4, 1896
46. Oklahoma 1908
47. New Mexico 1912
48. Arizona 1912
VI--
AREA OF THE UNITED STATES
ACCESSION YEAR
GROSS AREA
(SQUARE MILES)
Continental United States
3,026,789
Area 1790 892,135
Louisiana Purchase 1803 827,987
Florida Purchase 1819 58,666
Treaty with Spain 1819 13,435
Texas 1845 389,166
Oregon 1846 286,541
Mexican Cession 1848 529,189
Gadsden Purchase 1853 29,670
Outlying Possessions
716,517
Alaska 1867 590,884
Hawaii 1898 6,449
Philippine Islands 1899 115,026
Porto Rico 1899 3,435
Guam 1899 210
Samoa 1900 77
Panama Canal Zone 1904 436
AREA OF THE UNITED STATES (CONTINUED)
STATE RANK IN
AREA AREA
(SQUARE
MILES)
Texas 1 265,896
California 2 158,297
Montana 3 146,997
New Mexico 4 122,634
Arizona 5 113,956
Nevada 6 110,690
Colorado 7 103,948
Wyoming 8 97,914
Oregon 9 96,699
Utah 10 84,990
Minnesota 11 84,682
Idaho 12 83,888
Kansas 13 82,158
South Dakota 14 77,615
Nebraska 15 77,520
North Dakota 16 70,837
Oklahoma 17 70,057
Missouri 18 69,420
Washington 19 69,127
Georgia 20 59,265
Florida 21 58,666
Michigan 22 57,980
Illinois 23 56,665
Iowa 24 56,147
Wisconsin 25 56,066
Arkansas 26 53,335
North Carolina 27 52,426
Alabama 28 51,998
New York 29 49,204
Louisiana 30 48,506
Mississippi 31 46,865
Pennsylvania 32 45,126
Virginia 33 42,627
Tennessee 34 42,022
Ohio 35 41,040
Kentucky 36 40,598
Indiana 37 36,354
Maine 38 33,040
South Carolina 39 30,989
West Virginia 40 24,170
Maryland 41 12,327
Vermont 42 9,564
New Hampshire 43 9,341
Massachusetts 44 8,266
New Jersey 45 8,224
Connecticut 46 4,965
Delaware 47 2,370
Rhode Island 48 1,248
District of Columbia 49 70
VII--
POPULATION OF CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES BY DECADES, 1790-1910
CENSUS
YEAR
NUMBER
POPULATION INCREASE OVER
PRECEDING
CENSUS
PER CENT
INCREASE
1910 91,972,266 15,977,691 21.0
1900 75,994,575 13,046,861 20.7
1890 62,947,714 12,791,931 25.5
1880 50,155,783 11,597,412 30.1
1870 38,558,371 7,115,050 22.6
1860 31,443,321 8,251,445 35.6
1850 23,191,876 6,122,423 35.9
1840 17,069,453 4,203,433 32.7
1830 12,866,020 3,227,567 33.5
1820 9,638,453 2,398,572 33.1
1810 7,239,881 1,931,398 36.4
1800 5,308,483 1,379,269 35.1
1790 3,929,214
VIII-APPROXIMATE POPULATION UNDER THE AMERICAN FLAG, 1910
United States, proper 91,972,266
Alaska 64,356
Hawaii 191,909
Porto Rico 1,118,012
Persons in military and naval service 55,608
Philippine Islands [1903] 7,635,426
Guam 9,000
Samoa 6,100
Panama Zone 50,000
Total population of the United States 101,102,677
IX--POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES 1910, 1900, AND 1890
From Bulletin of the Thirteenth Census, 1910.
Year Per Cent of Increase
State
1910
1900
1890
Alabama 2,138,093 1,828,697 1,513,401 16.9 20.8
Arizona 204,354 122,931 88,243 66.2 39.3
Arkansas 1,574,449 1,311,564 1,128,211 20.0 16.3
California 2,377,549 1,485,053 1,213,398 60.1 22.4
Colorado 799,024 539,700 413,249 48.0 30.6
Connecticut 1,114,756 908,420 746,258 22.7 21.7
Delaware 202,322 184,735 168,493 9.5 9.6
Dist. of Columbia 331,069 278,718 230,392 18.8 21.0
Florida 752,619 528,542 391,422 42.4 35.0
Georgia 2,609,121 2,216,331 1,837,353 17.7 20.6
Idaho 325,594 161,772 88,548 101.3 82.7
Illinois 5,638,591 4,821,550 3,826,352 16.9 26.0
Indiana 2,700,876 2,516.462 2,192,404 7.3 14.8
Iowa 2,224,771 2,231,853 1,912,297 -0.3 16.7
Kansas 1,690,949 1,470,495 1,428,108 15.0 3.0
Kentucky 2,289,905 2,147,174 1,858,635 6.6 15.5
Louisiana 1,656,388 1,381,625 1,118,588 19.9 23.5
Maine 742,371 694,466 661,086 6.9 5.0
Maryland 1,295,346 1,188,044 1,042,390 9.0 14.0
Massachusetts 3,366,416 2,805,346 2,238,947 20.0 25.3
Michigan 2,810,l73 2,420.982 2,093,890 16.1 15.6
Minnesota 2,075,708 1,751,394 1,310,283 18.5 33.7
Mississippi 1,797,114 1,551,270 1,289,600 15.8 20.3
Missouri 3,293,335 3,106,665 2,679,185 6.0 16.0
Montana 376,053 243,329 142,924 54.5 70.3
Nebraska 1,192,214 1,066,300 1,062,656 11.8 0.3
Nevada 81,875 42,335 47,355 93. -10.6
New Hampshire 430,572 411,588 376,530 4.6 9.3
New Jersey 2,537,167 1,883,669 1,444,933 34.7 30.4
New Mexico 327,301 195,310 160,282 67.6 21.9
New York 9,113,614 7,268,894 6,003,174 25.4 21.1
North Carolina 2,206,287 l,893,810 1,617,949 16.5 17.1
North Dakota 577,056 319,146 190,983 80.8 67.1
Ohio 4,767,121 4,157,545 3,672,329 14.7 13.2
Oklahoma 1,657,155 1,414,177 790,391 17.2 109.7
Oregon 672,765 413,536 317,704 62.7 30.2
Pennsylvania 7,665,111 6,302,115 5,258,113 21.6 19.9
Rhode Island 542,610 428,556 345,506 26.6 24.0
South Carolina 1,515,400 1,340,316 1,151,149 13.1 16.4
South Dakota 583,888 401,570 348,600 45.4 15.2
Tennessee 2,184,789 2,020,616 1,767,518 8.1 14.3
Texas 3,896,542 3,048,710 2,235,527 27.8 36.4
Utah 373,351 276,749 210,779 34.9 31.3
Vermont 355,956 343,641 332,422 3.6 3.4
Virginia 2,061,612 1,854,184 1,655,980 11.2 12.0
Washington 1,141,990 518,103 357,232 120.4 45.0
West Virginia 1,221,119 958,800 762,794 27.4 25.7
Wisconsin 2,333,860 2,069,042 1,693,330 12.8 22.2
Wyoming 145,965 92,531 62,555 57.7 47.9
X--NUMBER OF MEMBERS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AFTER EACH
APPORTIONMENT
Year
1910 1900 1890 1880 1870 1860 1850 1840 1830 1820 1810 1800 1790 1780
Ratio
212,877 194,182 173,901 151,.911 131,425
127,381 93,423 70,680 47,700 40,000 35,000 33,000
33,000 30,000
Total under
apportionment 433 386 356 325 292 241 234 223 240 213 181 141 105 65
Assigned new
States 2 5 1 7 1 2 3 9 2 --- 5 1 1
Alabama 10 9 9 8 8 6 7 7 5 3
Arizona 1
Arkansas 7 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1
California 11 8 7 6 4 3 2 2
Colorado 4 3 2 1 1
Connecticut 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 6 6 7 7 7 5
Delaware 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1
Florida 4 3 2 2 2 1 1 1
Georgia 12 11 11 10 9 7 8 8 9 7 6 4 2 3
Idaho 2 1 1 1
Illinois 27 25 22 20 19 14 9 7 3 1 1
Indiana 13 13 13 13 13 11 11 10 7 3 1
Iowa 11 11 11 11 9 6 2 2
Kansas 8 8 8 7 3 1
Kentucky 11 11 11 11 10 9 10 10 13 12 10 6 2
Louisiana 8 7 6 6 6 5 4 4 3 3 1
Maine 4 4 4 4 5 5 6 7 8 7 7
Maryland 6 6 6 6 6 5 6 6 8 9 9 9 8 6
Massachusetts 16 14 13 12 11 10 11 10 12 13 13 17 14 8
Michigan 13 12 12 11 9 6 4 3 1
Minnesota 10 9 7 5 3 2 2
Mississippi 8 8 7 7 6 5 5 4 2 1 1
Missouri 16 16 15 14 13 9 7 5 2 1
Montana 2 1 1 1
Nebraska 6 6 6 3 1 1
Nevada 1 1 1 1 1 1
New Hampshire 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 6 6 5 4 3
New Jersey 12 10 8 7 7 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 5 4
New Mexico 1
New York 43 37 34 34 33 31 33 34 40 34 27 17 10 6
North Carolina 10 10 9 9 8 7 8 9 13 13 14 12 10 5
North Dakota 3 2 1 1
Ohio 22 21 21 21 20 19 21 21 19 14 6 1
Oklahoma 8 5
Oregon 3 2 2 1 1 1 1
Pennsylvania 36 32 30 28 27 24 25 24 28 26 23 18 13 8
Rhode Island 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1
South Carolina 7 7 7 7 5 4 6 7 9 9 9 8 6 5
South Dakota 3 2 2 2
Tennessee 10 10 10 10 10 8 10 11 13 9 6 3 1
Texas 18 16 13 11 6 4 2 2
Utah 2 1 1
Vermont 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 5 5 6 4 2
Virginia 10 10 10 10 9 11 13 15 21 22 23 22 19
Washington 5 3 2 1
West Virginia 6 5 4 4 3
Wisconsin 11 11 10 9 8 6 3 2
Wyoming 1 1 1 1
XI--POPULATION LIVING IN URBAN AND RURAL TERRITORY 1890-1910.
URBAN TERRITORY INCLUDES CITIES OF 2,500 OR OVER
1910
1900
1890
Per Cent
CLASSIFICATION Number
of places Population Number
of places Population Number
of places Population 1910
1900
1890
Total population
91,972,266
75,994,575
62,947,714 100.0 100.0 100.0
Urban territory 2,405 42,623,383 1,894 30,797,185 1,510 22,720,223 46.3 40.6 36.1
1,000,000 or more 3 8,501,174 3 6,429,474 3 3,662,115 9.2 8.5 5.8
500,000 to 1,000,000 5 3,010,667 3 1,645,087 1 806,343 3.3 2.2 1.3
250,000 to 500,000 11 3,949,839 9 2,861,296 7 2,447,608 4.3 3.8 3.9
100,000 to 250,000 31 4,840,458 23 3,272,490 17 2,781,894 5.3 4.3 4.4
50,000 to 100,000 59 4,178,915 41 2,760,477 30 2,027,569 4.5 3.6 3.2
25,000 to 50,000 120 4,062,763 82 2,785,667 67 2,298,765 4.4 3.7 3.7
10,000 to 25,000 374 5,609,208 286 4,409,900 232 3,487,139 6.1 5.8 5.5
5,000 to 10,000 629 4,364,703 477 3,278,518 361 2,495,594 4.7 4.3 4.0
2,500 to 5,000 1,173 4,105,656 970 3,354,276 792 2,713,196 4.5 4.4 4.3
Rural territory
49,348,883
45,197,390
40,227,491 53.7 59.5 63.9
Incorporated towns
of less than 2,500
inhabitants
11,784 8,119,528 8,892 6,247,645 6,466 4,719,835 8.8 8.2 7.5
Other rural territory
41,229,355
38,949,745
35,507,656 44.8 51.3 56.4
XII--TWENTY-FIVE LARGEST CITIES FROM 1880 TO 1910.
ARRANGED IN THE ORDER OF THEIR RANK
1910
1900
1890
1880
Rank
City Population City Population City Population City Population
1 New York 4,766,883 New York 3,437,202 New York 1,515,301 New York 1,206,299
2 Chicago 2,185,283 Chicago 1,698,575 Chicago 1,099,850 Philadelphia 847,170
3 Philadelphia 1,549,008 Philadelphia 1,293,697 Philadelphia 1,046,964 Brooklyn 566,663
4 St. Louis 687,029 St. Louis 575,238 Brooklyn 806,343 Chicago 503,185
5 Boston 670,585 Boston 560,892 St. Louis 451,770 Boston 362,839
6 Cleveland 560,663 Baltimore 508,957 Boston 448,477 St. Louis 350,518
7 Baltimore 558,485 Cleveland 381,768 Baltimore 434,439 Baltimore 332,313
8 Pittsburgh 533,905 Buffalo 352,387 San Francisco 298,997 Cincinnati 255,139
9 Detroit 465,766 San Francisco 342,782 Cincinnati 296,908 San Francisco 233,959
10 Buffalo 423,715 Cincinnati 325,902 Cleveland 261,353 New Orleans 216,090
11 San Francisco 416,912 Pittsburgh 321,616 Buffalo 255,664 Washington 177,624
12 Milwaukee 373,857 New Orleans 287,104 New Orleans 242,039 Cleveland 160,146
13 Cincinnati 363,591 Detroit 285,704 Pittsburgh
238,617 Pittsburgh 156,389
14 Newark 347,469 Milwaukee 285,315 Washington 230,392 Buffalo 155,134
15 New Orleans 339,075 Washington 278,718 Detroit 205,876 Newark 136,508
16 Washington 331,069 Newark 246,070 Milwaukee 204,468 Louisville 123,758
17 Los Angeles 319,198 Jersey City 206,433 Newark 181,830 Jersey City 120,722
18 Minneapolis 301,408 Louisville 204,731 Minneapolis 164,738 Detroit 116,340
19 Jersey City 267,779 Minneapolis 202,718 Jersey City 163,003 Milwaukee 115,587
20 Kansas City 248,381 Providence 175,597 Louisville 161,129 Providence 104,857
21 Seattle 237,194 Indianapolis 169,164 Omaha 140,452 Albany 90,758
22 Indianapolis 233,650 Kansas City 163,752 Rochester 133,896 Rochester 89,366
23 Providence 224,326 St. Paul 163,065 St. Paul 133,156 Allegheny 78,682
24 Louisville 223,928 Rochester 162,608 Kansas City 132,716 Indianapolis 75,056
25 Rochester 218,149 Denver 133,859 Providence 132,146 Richmond 63,600