According to the census of 1800, the United States of America contained 5,308,4832 persons. In the same year the British Islands contained upwards of fifteen million; the French Republic, more than twenty-seven million. Nearly one-fifth of American people were black slaves; the true ppolitical population consisted of four and a half million free whites, or less than one million able-bidied males, on whose shoulders fell the burden of a continent. Even after two centuries of struggle the land was still untamed; forest covered every portion, except here and there a trip of cultivated soil; the minerals lay undisturbed in their rocky beds, and more than two-thirds of the people clung to the seaboard within fifty miles of tidewater, where alone the wants of civilized life could be supplied.
1. In the United States of America in 1800 ____________
a. one out of every twenty-five Americans was a black slave
b. one out of every four Americans was a black slave
c. two out of every three Americans were black slaves
d. one out of every fire Americans was a black slave
2. What is the true potilical population in America in 1800?
a. About four-fifth of the population.
b. About one-fifth of the population
c. 5,308,483
d. Less than one million.
3. Which of the following is not true?
a. About one-fifth of American people were black slaves in 1800
b. Two-thirds of the American people live on the seaboard.
c. In 1800, the land was still untamed.
d. In 1800, strips of cultivated land were everywhere
4. How long had the struggle to tame the American continent been going on in 1800?
a. About two hundted years.
b. A little more than a century.
c. About fifty years.
d. Since 1750.