The census attacked from New York to New Orleans for its post-Civil War undercount
The census attacked from New York to New Orleans for its post-Civil War undercount April White Officers of the New York and Brooklyn Corp. and workers inspect cable on the Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Bridge during construction in 1878. (AP) The census was a mess. The United States’ population had changed dramatically over the previous decade, one marked by hundreds of thousands of unexpected deaths. One political party had lobbied for the addition of a citizenship question, complicating the already challenging task of counting those living within the country’s borders...
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