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Visit the following website which holds an index of questions asked on the Census over time, https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/index_of_questions/. Use the column on the left to navigate to different years and complete the following (you MAY copy/paste answers from the website only for questions 1-7 below):

1. List the questions asked on the 1790 census.
2. For the 1860 census, name the options listed for question 6, “Color.”
3. For the 1870 census, name the options listed for question 6, “Color.”
4. For the 1870 census, what do questions 11 and 12 ask?
5. For the 1900 census, name the options listed for question 5, “Race.”
6. For the 1900 census, what do questions 13-18 ask?
7. For the 2000 census, what does question 11 ask?
8. View the image below which is from the 2010 census and answer the following: What is different about this question than past Census questions that asked about race? Be specific.

*Taken from Humes, Jones, & Ramirez, 2011

Visit https://datamapper.geo.census.gov/map.html (you must allow Flash to run).

Play around with this application by displaying several maps. Select data theme of “Population and Race;” data table of “Percent White;” choose any color palette you like; set number of classes to 5; select “Equal Interval” for classification type; click “Create Your Map.” Then change the data table to “Percent Black of African American,” then “Percent Hispanic or Latino,” and lastly “Percent Asian.” Hover over counties for more information as needed. Use the +/- zoom button in the top right corner of the map to navigate.

1. Which county appears to have the highest percent Asian population?
2. Which states (LIST IN ALPHABTICAL ORDER) have at least one county with 34.4% or higher percent Black or African American population?
3. Click “Display Data Table” at the top of the map and a window will open. Scroll to find the counties that have at least 99% White population (don’t do any rounding yourself—just select counties that are listed at 99% or more). List the counties IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER with their respective states.

Visit the following 3 links to learn about events going on in US history, 1850-1900.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/317.html (*Note: click the advance button to examine information spanning 1851-1870).

https://demography.cpc.unc.edu/2015/04/27/u-s-immigration-flows-1820-2013/ (*Note: may take a while to load)

http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/emancipation/files/2011/07/Handout-Emancipation-Timeline.pdf

1. Combining knowledge of how census questions about race changed over time and historical background information gained from ALL 3 links above, hypothesize why there were chan