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The United States' tight immigration policies were not lifted during the Holocaust, news of which began to reach the United States in 1941 and 1942 and it has been estimated that 190,000–200,000 Jews could have been saved during the Second World War had it not been for bureaucratic obstacles to immigration deliberately created by Breckinridge ...
By 2060, Hispanic Americans are projected to account for about one-third of the total U.S. population. [46] The tables present Census Bureau "middle series" projections published in May 2013. Racial and ethnic demographics of the United States (total numbers) between 2020 and 2060 (projected) [47] Race/ethnic group.
The population growth of each U.S. state from 1970 to 2020. This is a list of U.S. states and territories by historical population, as enumerated every decade by the United States Census. As required by the United States Constitution, a census has been conducted every 10 years since 1790. Although the decennial census collects a variety of ...
African-American % of Population (1790–1990) Black or African American alone or in combination (2000-2020) by U.S. state and territory; State/Territory 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 United States of America: 19.3% 18.9% 19.0% 18.4% 18.1% 16.8% 15.7% 14.1 ...
The United States transfers sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone back to the Republic of Panama, October 1, 1979; 1980s. Mount St. Helens erupts, May 18, 1980; Ronald Reagan becomes the 40th president of the United States on January 20, 1981; The United States joins Multinational Force in Lebanon, August 29, 1982 – February 26, 1984
Star-Gazette (1828, founded as Elmira Gazette, the first newspaper of the now massive Gannett conglomerate) The Providence Journal (1829) The Post-Standard (1829) The Philadelphia Inquirer (1829, founded as The Pennsylvania Inquirer) The Stamford Advocate (1829, founded as The Stamford Intelligencer)
The 1980 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 226,545,805, an increase of 11.4% over the 203,184,772 persons enumerated during the 1970 census. [1] It was the first census in which a state— California —recorded a population of 20 million people, as well as the ...
Detroit's population increased from under 500,000 in 1910 to over 1.8 million at the city's peak in 1950, making Detroit the fourth-most populous city in the United States at that time. The population grew largely because of an influx of European immigrants, in addition to the migration of both black and white Americans to Detroit. [10]