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Sticking Gravel Up Your Nose and Idiocy

This article explores whether sticking gravel up your nose can really cause idiocy and delves into the assigned causes of idiocy throughout history. It also provides a historical background on the need for a census in the United States and the progression of the Census Bureau over the years.

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Sticking Gravel Up Your Nose and Idiocy

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  1. Digitized Collections1790 – 2000Frank WilmotGovernment Publications LibraryDecember 13, 2006

  2. Can sticking gravel up your nose really cause idiocy? Assigned causes of idiocy

  3. History and Background: • New nation needed a census to • Apportion the House of Representatives

  4. History and Background: • New nation needed a census to • Figure out how much each state owed for the war

  5. History and Background: • Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution • Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct.

  6. Census Bureau – Progress • 1790 – 1870: U.S. marshalls and assistants • 1880 – 1900: Census Office within U.S. Dept. of Interior • 1902: Congress authorized the President to create a permanent Census Office

  7. Census Bureau – Progress • 1903: Transferred to the new Dept. of Commerce and Labor • 1913: Dept. of Commerce and Labor split into two; Census went with Commerce

  8. First Census – 1790

  9. First Census – 1790

  10. Subsequent Censuses Added in 1810 Manufactures

  11. Subsequent Censuses Added in 1840 Agriculture Mining Fisheries

  12. Subsequent Censuses Other social issued added in 1850 Taxes Churches

  13. Subsequent Censuses Other social issued added in 1850 Crime Pauperism

  14. Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically

  15. Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically

  16. Subsequent Censuses Spread geographically 1907 1903

  17. Subsequent Censuses • 1880 and 1890 • Took almost a decade to compile and publish reports

  18. Subsequent Censuses 1880: 22 Volumes, Compendium, etc. 1890: 15 Volumes, some with multiple parts 1910: 10 Volumes

  19. Subsequent Censuses • Dropped topics reappear in later censuses • Technology • Process data faster • Publish faster

  20. Census Programs Population: 1790 to present

  21. Census Programs Housing: 1940 to present

  22. Census Programs Agriculture

  23. Census Programs Manufactures & Mining

  24. Census Programs Business

  25. Census Programs Construction

  26. Census Programs Governments

  27. Census Programs

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