Southern states wanted to count slaves because the House of Representatives is based on population. The census is taken to determine how many representatives each state gets. Since the south was mostly made up of slaves, it would get more representatives if they were counted.
They were going to be counted as 1/3 of a person.
The 1950 US Census counted 10,586,223 Californians.
The first federal census conducted in California was in 1860 and counted 308,000 residents.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the population of Australia in 1901 was 3,773,801. This did not include the indigenous people, who were not counted in the census.
Slaves were not counted in the population census in 1860 or 1870.
Southern states wanted to count slaves because the House of Representatives is based on population. The census is taken to determine how many representatives each state gets. Since the south was mostly made up of slaves, it would get more representatives if they were counted.
slaves were viewed as property not as people
The Three-Fifths Compromise of the Constitutional Convention established that slaves were to be counted as three-fifths of a person when taking a census for apportionment. This was nullified by a later Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary service.
five slaves will be counted as 3 people
In the 1950 U.S. Census, 1,325,089 residents were counted in Colorado. That is 26.35% of the quantity counted in the 2010 Census.
Slaves were counted as three-fifth's of a single person.
The invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 led to a major increase in the number of slaves in the United States. The first census in 1790 counted 697,897 slaves, but by 1810 that number had grown 1.2 million slaves and increase of about 70%!
What counted is that there were cencus
a census
was slaves counted as people or property
It was used to determine population of states. Southern states had 9 million slaves and the smaller states didn't want them counted in the population so each slave was counted as 3/4 of a person in the census.