In 1790, the first federal population census was taken in the United States. Enumerators were instructed to classify free residents as white or "other." Only the heads of households were identified by name in the federal census until 1850. Native Americans were included among "Other;" in later censuses, they were included as "Free people of color" if they were not living on Indian reservations. Slaves were counted separately from free persons in all the censuses until the Civil War and end of slavery. In later censuses, people of African descent were classified by appearance as mulatto (which recognized visible European ancestry in addition to African) or black. 

By 1990, the Census Bureau included more than a dozen ethnic/racial categories on the census, reflecting not only changing social ideas about ethnicity, but the wide variety of immigrants who had come to reside in the United States due to changing historical forces and new immigration laws in the 1960s. With a changing society, more citizens have begun to press for acknowledging multiracial ancestry. The Census Bureau changed its data collection by allowing people to self-identify as more than one ethnicity. Some ethnic groups are concerned about the potential political and economic effects, as federal assistance to historically underserved groups has depended on Census data. According to the Census Bureau, as of 2002, over 75% of all African Americans had multiracial ancestries.
How many ways were people of African Descent classified in 1790?
What about free residents?
Unitil 1850 which group had their names included?
Who took the count?
When did the US start the census?
At first how were Native Americans classes?
and later?
How were people with African blood classed?
How many ways?
what were they?
How many African Americans choose to include more than one race?
What does federal assistance depend on?
Are people worried about this?
Which groups depend on this aid?
when did it include over 12 categories?
Does this suggest a shift in thinking?
about what?
What kind of laws could have contributed?
When were these laws from?
What country is this census from?
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In 1790, the first federal population census was taken in the United States. Enumerators were instructed to classify free residents as white or "other."
Also only one classification
In 1790, the first federal population census was taken in the United States. Enumerators were instructed to classify free residents as white 
Heads of households
 Only the heads of households were identified by name in the federal census until 1850.
Enumerators
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In 1790
In 1790, the first federal population census was taken in the United States.
"Other"
In 1790, the first federal population census was taken in the United States. Enumerators were instructed to classify free residents as white or "other." 
as "Free people of color"
Native Americans were included among "Other;" in later censuses, they were included as "Free people of color"
By appearance
 In later censuses, people of African descent were classified by appearance as mulatto (which recognized visible European ancestry in addition to African) or black. 
Two
y. In later censuses, people of African descent were classified by appearance as mulatto (which recognized visible European ancestry in addition to African) or black. 
Mulatto or black
African descent were classified by appearance as mulatto (which recognized visible European ancestry in addition to African) or black. 
75%
 According to the Census Bureau, as of 2002, over 75% of all African Americans had multiracial ancestries.
On Census data
, as federal assistance to historically underserved groups has depended on Census data. A
Yes
ome ethnic groups are concerned about the potential political and economic effects, as
Historically underserved ones
, as federal assistance to historically underserved groups has depended on Census data. 
By 1990
By 1990, the Census Bureau included more than a dozen ethnic/racial categories on the census,
Yes
With a changing society, more citizens have begun to press for acknowledging multiracial ancestry. T
ethnicity
eflecting not only changing social ideas about ethnicity, 
immigration
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the 1960s
d new immigration laws in the 1960s
The United States
In 1790, the first federal population census was taken in the United States.