U.S.

Demographics in 1790
How did the social and cultural diversity of the 18th century
U.S. shape a unique identity?
In the year 1790, the United States had a population of nearly
4 million people, with 80.7% of those people being White and 19.3%
of those people being Black. My guess would be that over the years,
more and more slaves were being imported into America, and the
number of Blacks would steadily increase over the years following
1790. The decade of 1790 had a dramatic increase to a little over 5
million people by the end of 1799. The population growth had an
increase of 30.06% per 1,000 people and the natural increase was
26.49%, and the rate of net migration was 3.59% per 1,000.
Furthermore, the United States residents lived all different places,
with the most being from the South Atlantic, an astonishing statistic
of 1,851,806 people, to New England with just over a million, to the
Mid-Atlantic with 958,632 people. The net immigration stayed
steady at about 4,000 people per year. After 1810, the percentage
of Blacks in America started to slowly decrease with less slavery in
the States.
Looking at these statistics, one could infer that America is and
was a very diverse area, with people coming from all over the world.
Most of the immigrants who came from these diverse backgrounds
were, in fact, slaves or servants. At that point in time, America was
being developed and people came to rural areas and urban areas
and many different cultures clashed together to form the American
society. I feel that the immigrants and the Americans unified to form
new ideas and took a part in shaping Americas identity. There is no
one race known as American, but a mixture of races that are all
welcome to America, and helps shape its identity as a diverse group

of people. America is well known to be a melting pot, where races

from Europe are melting together and creating America so what
exactly is American? American is a new identity with a mixture of
blood coming from all different European races, with all Americans
differing but united by a sense of freedom.