A history of the United States for Catholic schools . I DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATES 249 In accordance with the Constitution, which provides that thecensus be taken every ten years, the first enumeration wasmade in 1790 and showed a population of nearly four millions,about one-fifth of which were negroes, mostly slaves, and one-fiftieth Indians, Only five per cent of the people lived west ofthe Alleghanies. Virginia was the most populous state; Penn-sylvania ranked next; then followed in order North Carolina,Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, South Carolina, and Con-necticut. 323. The West. Vermo
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . I DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATES 249 In accordance with the Constitution, which provides that thecensus be taken every ten years, the first enumeration wasmade in 1790 and showed a population of nearly four millions,about one-fifth of which were negroes, mostly slaves, and one-fiftieth Indians, Only five per cent of the people lived west ofthe Alleghanies. Virginia was the most populous state; Penn-sylvania ranked next; then followed in order North Carolina,Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, South Carolina, and Con-necticut. 323. The West. Vermont was admitted as the fourteenthstate in 1791, and Kentucky as the fifteenth, in 1792. The glow-ing accounts of Boone and other western pioneers attracted. AN EMIGRANT WAGON many people to the beautiful and fertile region west ofthe mountains. The means of travel and communication wereso slow, however, that Jefferson declared it would take athousand years to fill up the region to the MississippiRiver. There were three main routes of travel to the western set-iements:1) the Ohio River was reached at Pittsburg by a route through Pennsylvania or by way of the Potomac and Mononga- hela rivers; 250 A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (2) the Virginia valley settlers followed the Greenbrier River to the Great Kanawha, a branch of the Ohio; (3) the greatest number of the frontier settlers moved by way of the Cumberland Gap or Wilderness numbers of pack-horses and emigrant wagons werefollowing the three common routes across the mountains. Pitts-burg especially, felt the impetus of the western movement, for,from this point, the pioneers with their families and belong-ings, could easily float down the Ohio on flatboats and buildhomes in what
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