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Title: A history of the United States for Catholic schools
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.)
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Publisher: New York, Scott, Foresman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ements. Having seen how the Con-stitution was framed and adopted, we are now to learn how thenew government was put into operation under this Constitution. 322. Area—Extent—Population. Before studying the nextepoch of our history, let us dwell briefly on the general socialconditions of the young nation about to begin its career under thenew Constitution. We cannot expect to recount any imme-diate progress after the hardships and confusion of the war.The people stood still, as it were, in the face of the overwhelm-ing recollections of the past and the political disturbances ofthe present. This condition, however, was soon to give wayto an outburst of great national activity. The United States in 1783 included an area of about eighthundred thousand square miles and was bounded on the northby the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence; on the east, by theAtlantic; and on the south and west, by Spanish territory.These boundaries were in dispute at points east and west ofthe Great Lakes. 248
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I DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATES 249 In accordance with the Constitution, which provides that thecensus be taken every ten years, the first enumeration wasmade in 1790 and showed a population of nearly four millions,about one-fifth of which were negroes, mostly slaves, and one-fiftieth Indians, Only five per cent of the people lived west ofthe Alleghanies. Virginia was the most populous state; Penn-sylvania ranked next; then followed in order North Carolina,Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, South Carolina, and Con-necticut. 323. The West. Vermont was admitted as the fourteenthstate in 1791, and Kentucky as the fifteenth, in 1792. The glow-ing accounts of Boone and other western pioneers attracted

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