In 1890, the Bureau of Census Announced That

question 123

Multiple Choice

In 1890, the Bureau of Census announced that

• A)sixty percent of the U.S. population lived west of the Mississippi River.
• B)a majority of Americans were foreign born.
• C)the frontier which had separated the settled from unsettled areas of the continent, no longer existed.
• D)the number of immigrants coming to the United States was at the lowest point in history.
• E)most Americans now lived in urban areas rather than on farms.

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