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Focus: Using Census Figures






Challenge: Your colonial character has received the census figures for the Negro population of the Boston area. Using those figures, complete a graph.

Negro Population of the Boston Area, 1754 - 1800

TOWN

1,754

1,765

1,790

1,800

Cambridge

56

90

60

25

Charlestown

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136

25

38

Brookline

17

18

13

15

Dorchester

31

37

30

35

Roxbury

53

80

40

71

Boston

989

848

766

1,174

Chelsea

35

43

21

20

TOTAL

1,181

1,252

955

1,378

What to do: (Select one) [Student work: 1 2]

1. Create a line graph of the Negroes living in Boston from 1754 through 1800.

2. Create a vertical bar graph comparing the Negroes living in Dorchester and Roxbury from 1754 through 1800.

3. Create a horizontal bar graph of the Negroes living in Brookline from 1754 through 1800.

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