1800 US Census: Population, States, Cities, Territories | America in 1800 | Historical demographics

[@BluegrassJay]

Dreamed of a presentation that uses geography to explain history...... Love your channel. I'm a Kentuckian who loves my states interesting history. Would you be able to do a video about the exploration by Boone, Simon Kenton James Harrod etc. Into the original western frontier of the United States??? Fascinated by the race to settle KY and Shawnee attempts to thwart such exploration. Thanks to you for the content and the work you put into it with great detail.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you! I really appreciate it. Yes, Daniel Boone is on the horizon. Cumberland Gap is a big deal.

[@maxt-pi5ky]

Having both a vision impairment and a love for history, maps and tables, I can’t tell you how much I appreciated this.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you for watching!

[@thattimestampguy]

The 1800 US Census 0:23 The Census is mandated/required by The US Constitution. 0:30 16 United States makeup the United States in the Year 1800 0:46 Florida in 1800 is under Spanish control and governance. *Population Categories* Free White Males Free White Females 0:54 1:20 All other free persons except Indians not taxed. 1:35 Slave column. The Constitution enumerated slaves as 3/5 of a person. *Population Total* 1:53 • 5.3 Million Americans. • 6 People per square mile 2:23 Very Rural American landscape for most Americans. A few major cities. *Virginia is the largest populated state in The 16 US States of 1800* 2:32 Virginia has 886,100 souls living there. 2:55 6,000 people live in Alexandria Virginia. 3:08 • Eastern District Virginia has 682,600 people • West Virginia District contains 203,500 people *Pennsylvania, the 2nd most populated of the 16 States of America in 1800* 3:53 • Pennsylvania East 327,800 • Pennsylvania West 274,600 4:27 New York 586,100 Persons 4:33 Massachusetts 422,800 + 151,700 in Maine = 574,600 Massachusetts people. 4:54 North Carolina 478,100 residents. 4:59 Maryland 349,700 residents 5:05 South Carolina 345,600 5:10 Connecticut 251,000 residents 5:20 Kentucky has 221,000 settlers and pioneers in just 8 years! (Remember how long it took Virginia to get 200,000 settlers?) 5:36 New Jersey 211,100 5:41 New Hampshire 183,900 5:46 Georgia 162,700 5:52 Vermont 154,500 in 9 years 6:03 Tennessee 105,600 pioneers and settlers 6:13 Rhode Island 69,100 6:18 SMALLEST 64,300 Delaware settlers 6:35 Ohio Territory 45,400 6:41 Indiana Territory 5,641 Settlers, Pioneers, and Canadian boatman. 6:49 Shawnee & Miami Native Tribe Americans 7:05 Mississippi Territory 8,900 settlers and pioneers. *The Frontier expands past the Cumberland Gap* 7:31 8:02 A few thousand people was considered to be a Large Town back in 1800, today (this conception has expanded from Large Towns to Large Cities with Millions of people). 8:22 Largest Cities 1st: New York NY 60,500 residents 2nd: Philadelphia PENN 41,200 residents 3rd: Baltimore MD 26,500 4th: Boston MA 24,900 5th: Charleston SC 18,800 “The South’s Biggest City” Salem M *Out in the Territories in 180o and tiny Southern Cities* 10:29 Pittsburgh 12:38 North Carolina lacked large cities in 1800 *Slavery in 1800* 13:23 893,605 slaves = 17% of 5.3 Million US People 14:03 New Hampshire had 8 slaves (I wonder if they have any personal records on who these 8 New Hampshire slaves were). The North barely had any slaves in 1800 • Kentucky 18% • Maryland 31% • Georgia 37% • Mississippi 39% • Eastern Virginia 48% • Western Virginia 12% because Western Virginia is a mountain ⛰️dense area with little land room for plantation. (*”Middle South”*) 18:23 Virginia and Maryland and Delaware have Free Africian Americans and Slaves at the same time. 20:10 Thomas Jefferson’s America 1800

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you, Time Stamp Guy!

[@jonny-b4954]

It's literally a headache in a half to think of how much we've grown since then as a country and world. Just imagine how much pristine wilderness was around back then with only 5 million people. There's that many people in my county and the few surrounding counties.

[@NathanDudani]

pRiStInE, yeah totally uninhabited...

[@sgtpetergreen]

One thing that gets me in thinking about what the us looked like in 1800 and just how unrecognizable it would be once it reached 1900

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

The transformation is incredible. And then it turns over again from 1900 to 2000.

[@NortsGhoul]

I’m so glad I found this channel

[@midlwestern3237]

This content is fantastic, thank you.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@automaticmattywhack1470]

Thanks for another informative, interesting video!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Much appreciated!

[@Sk8Bettty]

What a great video!! In 1800, my Morris branch was at Fort Morris on the Great Kanawha River just above present day Charleston, West Virginia.

[@meangene2345]

New subscriber here. I LOVE your content!!!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you! Welcome to the channel!

[@hawkmoon419]

Great, informative video. One error: John Adams was President in 1800 not Thomas Jefferson.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thanks, a few folks have mentioned this. I should have stated, "When the census returns came in, Thomas Jefferson was the president."

[@skpjoecoursegold366]

thanks.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you for watching!

[@TheHypnotstCollector]

Moreau De St Mery, American Journey 1793-98. A Great read. He was connected, he was French, He knew everyone, he traveled and he gives all kinds of Stats and experiences. u wont regret reading it

[@RVail623]

At 7:16 you include only the Maryland portion of the population of D.C. In fact, the original 10 mile x 10 mile square-shaped District of Columbia included portions of both Maryland & Virginia. It wasn't until 1846 that the Virginia portion (including the City of Alexandria) was relinquished back to the governance of the State of Virginia.

[@NathanDudani]

*retroceded

[@Squatch_Rider66]

Very interesting video. It’s amazing that in 223 years the country has grown to 330 million people.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Thank you, sir!

[@lamwen03]

To paint with a very broad brush, the English colonies seem to be unique in the Americas, as they were primarily settlers, working the land and generating their own wealth. This contrasts with French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies witch appear to be almost primarily involved in trade, the 'mercantile system' of exporting raw materials to the mother country for manufacture into finished goods.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Yes, the British colonies had explosive growth rates since the 17th century. The Puritan settlement at Boston in 1630 had 1,000 people come off the ships. That's a giant colony in 1630. That is like 100,000 people today going on ships and landing to start a new colony. The British colonies wanted immigrants, and founders like William Penn and Oglethorpe encouraged German and Swiss immigrants to come, so the British colonies were actually quite cosmopolitan and multi-cultural very early on.

[@KGTiberius]

@jeffreythelibrarian what happened to the Royalists after the War of Independence? Most interested in the impact on (former) New France - territory displacement of the Quebecois and the Quebecois migration (post war of independence). [Not the Arcadian displacement.] Interesting transition and migrations. Dissolution of New France, sale of the Louisiana Purchase = settlement of the Upper Great Lakes, from Rivière-du-Loup to Point Au Roche (New York) to Wisconsin.

[@donsemmens]

Wasn't Adams President in 1800?

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

He was president at the beginning of the year, but Jefferson was elected that year, and the final tallies came in when Jefferson was president.

[@raymondwinn6479]

The video stated that Thomas Jefferson was US President when the 1800 census was mounted. Wasn't he not inaugurated until March 1801 ???

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

When the census returns came in, the final tally was after Jefferson was in office. The census I believe was August 1800, but the returns took months.

[@FacloFormerFavorite]

A 36% increase in 10 years is insane. Mostly due to new territory I imagine.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Lots of immigrants, lots of babies born. The British colonies had been exploding population-wise exponentially since the 17th century, and it continued after the Revolution.

[@taihalpern7342]

Forever a nation of immigrants, America’s diversity has always been her strength.

[@nick21614]

Diversity is not a strength it is a weakness that needs to be overcome. America's strength came from good geography and good principles.

[@taihalpern7342]

@@nick21614 without immigration America would’ve never been founded, there’s not a single American who is not an immigrant or a decedent of immigrants (besides Native Indigenous Americans). How can you say immigration and diversity are America’s weakness when the entire existence of the nation wouldn’t exist without it?

[@nick21614]

@@taihalpern7342 You can say that for any country in the world. So it is irrelevant to talk about with any country. The Indians immigrated to North America as well.

[@phil20_20]

Sedition!

[@B_High_Man]

It would be interesting if you did the slave population of all countries at this time. You make it sound like slavery started in America. It’s weird.

[@lordofthemound3890]

I know it’s nitpicking, but Jefferson wouldn’t have become President until 1801.

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

Yes, in 1800 Adams is president. However, when the returns came in, and the tabulations were made, Jefferson was in office. It would take a year or two for the numbers to come back.

[@markaxworthy2508]

Could free African Americans own slaves?

[@mustbtrouble]

Yes

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@mustbtrouble And did free African Americans count as a whole person, or 3/5 of a person? How did they identify themselves as free when voting, presuming they were allowed to vote? Did they have to carry round manumission papers or birth records all the time?

[@mustbtrouble]

@@markaxworthy2508 well idk how well you know history but the right to vote came after the civil war. seems like you could google these basic questions for answers. or retake 11th grade.

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@mustbtrouble So, being a free African American did not give one the right to vote, even in those states where there was no slavery? I never took 11th Grade because I am not American. I was hoping for informed replies not laced with sarcasm.

[@mustbtrouble]

@@markaxworthy2508 the people on yt comments arent those with informed replies. In 1870, the 15th Amendment was ratified. It stated that, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” prior to this free blacks had a similar political status as native americans.

[@user-ji1yk1py3e]

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[@user-ji1yk1py3e]

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[@mrdinkelpuss4000]

I love you videos!

[@JeffreytheLibrarian]

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