| POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, BY STATES: 1920, 1910, AND 1900—Continued. | |||||||
| State | Population | Increase[1] 1910-1920 |
Increase[1] 1900-1910 | ||||
| 1920 | 1910 | 1900 | Number | Per cent. |
Number | Per cent. | |
| Missouri | 3,404,055 | 3,293,335 | 3,106,665 | 110,720 | 3.4 | 186,670 | 6.0 |
| Montana | 548,889 | 376,053 | 243,329 | 172,836 | 46.0 | 132,724 | 54.5 |
| Nebraska | 1,296,372 | 1,192,214 | 1,066,300 | 104,158 | 8.7 | 125,914 | 11.8 |
| Nevada | 77,407 | 81,875 | 42,335 | −4,468 | −5.5 | 39,540 | 93.4 |
| New Hampshire | 443,083 | 430,572 | 411,588 | 12,511 | 2.9 | 18,984 | 4.6 |
| New Jersey | 3,155,900 | 2,537,167 | 1,883,669 | 618,733 | 24.4 | 653,498 | 34.7 |
| New Mexico | 360,350 | 327,301 | 195,310 | 33,049 | 10.1 | 131,991 | 67.6 |
| New York | 10,386,227 | 9,113,614 | 7,268,894 | 1,271,613 | 14.0 | 1,844,720 | 25.4 |
| North Carolina | 2,559,123 | 2,206,287 | 1,893,810 | 352,836 | 16.0 | 312,477 | 16.5 |
| North Dakota | 646,872 | 577,056 | 319,146 | 69,816 | 12.1 | 257,910 | 80.8 |
| Ohio | 5,759,394 | 4,767,121 | 4,157,545 | 992,273 | 20.8 | 609,576 | 14.7 |
| Oklahoma | 2,028,283 | 1,657,155 | 790,391 | 371,128 | 22.4 | 866,764 | 109.7 |
| Oregon | 783,389 | 672,765 | 413,536 | 110,624 | 16.4 | 259,229 | 62.7 |
| Pennsylvania | 8,720,017 | 7,665,111 | 6,302,115 | 1,054,906 | 13.8 | 1,362,996 | 21.6 |
| Rhode Island | 604,397 | 542,610 | 428,556 | 61,787 | 11.4 | 114,054 | 26.6 |
| South Carolina | 1,683,724 | 1,515,400 | 1,340,316 | 168,324 | 11.1 | 175,084 | 13.1 |
| South Dakota | 636,547 | 583,888 | 401,570 | 52,659 | 9.0 | 182,318 | 45.4 |
| Tennessee | 2,337,885 | 2,184,789 | 2,020,616 | 153,096 | 7.0 | 164,173 | 8.1 |
| Texas | 4,663,228 | 3,896,542 | 3,048,710 | 766,686 | 19.7 | 847,832 | 27.8 |
| Utah | 449,396 | 373,351 | 276,749 | 76,045 | 20.4 | 96,602 | 34.9 |
| Vermont | 352,428 | 355,956 | 343,641 | −3,528 | −1.0 | 12,315 | 3.6 |
| Virginia | 2,309,187 | 2,061,612 | 1,854,184 | 247,575 | 12.0 | 207,428 | 11.2 |
| Washington | 1,356,621 | 1,141,990 | 518,103 | 214,631 | 18.8 | 623,887 | 120.4 |
| West Virginia | 1,463,701 | 1,221,119 | 958,800 | 242,582 | 19.9 | 262,319 | 27.4 |
| Wisconsin | 2,632,067 | 2,333,860 | 2,069,042 | 298,207 | 12.8 | 264,818 | 12.8 |
| Wyoming | 194,402 | 145,965 | 92,531 | 48,437 | 33.2 | 53,434 | 57.7 |
Government.—The form of government
of the United States is based on the
Constitution of Sept. 17, 1787, to which
10 amendments were added Dec. 15, 1791;
an 11th amendment, Jan. 8, 1798; a 12th
amendement, Sept. 25, 1804; a 13th
amendment, Dec. 18, 1865; a 14th amendment,
July 28, 1868; a 15th amendment
March 30, 1870; a 16th amendment, Feb.
13, 1913; a 17th amendment, May 31,
1913; an 18th amendment, Jan. 16, 1920,
a 19th amendment, Aug. 26, 1920. By
the Constitution the government of the
nation is intrusted to three separate
authorities, the Executive, the Legislative,
and the Judiciary. The executive
power is vested in a President, who holds
his office during the term of four years,
and is elected, together with a
Vice-President chosen for the same term, in
the mode prescribed as follows: “Each
State shall appoint, in such manner as
the Legislature thereof may direct, a
number of electors, equal to the whole
number of senators and representatives
to which the State may be entitled in the
Congress; but no senator or representative,
or person holding an office of trust
or profit under the United States, shall
be appointed an elector.” The Constitution
enacts that “the Congress may
determine the time of choosing the electors,
and the day on which they shall give
their votes, which day shall be the same
throughout the United States”; and
further, that “no person except a natural-born
citizen, or a citizen of the United
States at the time of the adoption of this
Constitution, shall be eligible to the office
of President; neither shall any person be
eligible to that office who shall not have
attained the age of 35 years, and been 14
years a resident within the United
States.” The President is commander-in-chief
of the army and navy and of the
militia in the service of the Union. He
has the power of a veto on all laws
passed by Congress; but, notwithstanding
his veto, any bill may become a law
on its being afterward passed by each
House of Congress by a two-thirds vote.
The Vice-President is ex officio President
of the Senate. The presidential succession
is fixed by chapter 4 of the acts of
the 49th Congress, 1st session. In case
of the removal, death, resignation, or
inability of both the President and
Vice-President, then the Secretary of State
shall act as President till the disability
of the President or Vice-President is
removed or a President is elected. If there
be no Secretary of State, then the Secretary
of the Treasury will act; and the
remainder of the order of succession is:
Secretary of War, Attorney-General,
Postmaster-General, Secretary of the
Navy, and Secretary of the Interior (the
office of Secretary of Agriculture was
created after the passage of the act).
The acting President must, on taking
office, convene Congress, if not at the
time in session, in extraordinary session,
giving 20 days' notice. This act applies
only to such Cabinet officers as shall have
