Can you name the 25 largest cities in the Union (based on the 1860 Census)?

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Source: 1860 U.S. Census
Note: Answers are taken from cities in States which did not secede in 1860-1861...
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Population	City	State
813,669		New York
565,529		Pennsylvania
266,661		New York
212,418		Maryland
177,840		Massachusetts
161,044		Ohio
160,773		Missouri
112,172		Illinois
81,129		New York
71,941		New Jersey
68,033		Kentucky
62,367		New York
61,122		Columbia Territory

Population	City	State
56,802		California
50,666		Rhode Island
49,221		Pennsylvania
48,204		New York
45,619		Michigan
45,246		Wisconsin
43,417		Ohio
39,267		Connecticut
39,265		New York
36,827		Massachusetts
29,226		New Jersey
28,702		Pennsylvania

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Union Cities (1860) Quiz

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	Roman:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 17:25 GMT		2 points
	Brooklyn is now part of New york since 1898 and Allegheny became part of Pittsburgh in 1908.Quick note

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	DragonNo4:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 17:40 GMT		23 points
	There were splinter groups in Missouri and Kentucky who declared secession, but their legally elected state legislatures did not.

	jhc1415:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 17:43 GMT		19 points
	why do you accept Pittsburgh without an h?

	anderson22:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 18:45 GMT		8 points
	Missouri and Kentucky were both border states. They tolerated slavery but thought of secession as ridiculous.@johnnywahoo

	ZapRowsdower:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 18:53 GMT		59 points
	@johnnywahoo. Are you really referring to the confederate flag as "our flag"? Let it go, man....

	GAThrawn:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 19:01 GMT		10 points
	@Roman: Yes, but the quiz is referring to cities at the time of the census, so it is correct.

	cocky:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 22:35 GMT		8 points
	Splinter groups in Kentucky and Missouri did send delegates to the Confederate Congress, but were not formal members of the CSA.

	DjSaxy01:	Feb 26th, 2012 at 23:02 GMT		1 point
	Only missed Lowell... so close! Was fortunate to have taken similar quizzes before so I'd get Allegheny and Brooklyn.

	johnlk:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 00:13 GMT		7 points
	The Confederacy certainly considered Kentucky and Missouri to be part of the Confederacy, but that would be an argument for including Louisville and St. Louis in lists of the largest Confederate cities. The Union, though, did not consider Kentucky or Missouri to have seceded, and both states were controlled by loyal governments throughout the conflict. Neither was required to apply for readmission to the Union. It would be ridiculous to exclude them from this list.

	Propellerhead:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 01:00 GMT		12 points
	I stared at this thing for several minutes wondering what the hell "Columbia Territory" was. It seems perfectly obvious now, and I feel rather stupid for not having figured it out, but it still seems like a strange thing to call the District.

	Aull_Tennis:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 01:36 GMT		1 point
	great quiz. got the easy ones. missed the hard ones. five stars

	Jeep1964:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 02:24 GMT		6 points
	Got Brooklyn, missed Alleghaney, Lowell and Troy. Brooklyn was a separate city in 1860, so the fact that it became part of NYC in 1898 is irrelevant.

	barnztormre:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 03:37 GMT		3 points
	I knew Lowell because it was the hub of the textile industry at that time (visited Lowell on multiple occasions), and Troy was a lucky guess at upstate NY towns. Missed Allegheny.

	Galacticdude:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 03:54 GMT		1 point
	I always forget that Brooklyn wasn't a part of New York until later on.

	slugga27:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 07:39 GMT		1 point
	I never knew that learning about the mills in Lowell would EVER come in handy. Not many things learned in fourth grade really help these days...

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	geigerm:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 18:11 GMT		4 points
	I think it's sad I missed Lowell while taking a break from work in Lowell.

	Rob42:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 18:39 GMT		0 points
	Good quiz, but would have never got Lowell or Allegheny. I think that you would have to be from the northeast in order to have heard of such cities. Also of note is just how many of these cities are in the northeast region, but that is not surprising considering the fact that the population shift has gradually moved southwestwards over the past two centuries.

	adamnvillani:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 21:45 GMT		6 points
	Check out the text of the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, which was still in force during the Civil War. It's always referred to as the district of Columbia, never Columbia Territory. I don't know where you came up with "Columbia Territory," but that was never the name of DC. http://www.nikolasschiller.com/blog/index.php/archives/2009/01/29/2213/

	Scyphus:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 23:22 GMT		6 points
	--> adamnvillani: Since I wrote this quiz like 2 years ago, I have quite forgoten the specific source. A shaky memory suggests I looked at the reproduction of the actual census summary page (i.e. not the HTML transcription in the source link), and saw "Columbia Territory" on it. But a little further looking prompted by your comment makes me think I confused the application of the name "Columbia Territory" for an old name for the District. At that time, however, what really was the Columbia Territory had just the year before become the State of Oregon. So, nice pickup; but, since the quiz made the main page, I can't edit it now to fix...

	Scyphus:	Feb 27th, 2012 at 23:38 GMT		5 points
	For what it is worth, when the District was laid out in 1791, the Commissioners in charge did call the larger whole "the Territory of Columbia," within which they planned the smaller "City of Washington." But as you point out, the Organic Act of 1801 was very consistent in referring to it as the "district of Columbia" (with a small 'd'). The earlier act of Congress of 1790 which directed its creation did not give it any name, but only called it a "district or territory."

	tulliuscicero:	Feb 28th, 2012 at 00:16 GMT		2 points
	Oh, Allegheny, I'm just across a river from your modern descendant, and I still type Erie and Scranton before you. sigh

	dxdtdemon:	Mar 25th, 2012 at 04:10 GMT		7 points
	Was I the only one who kept typing in Spokane, Seattle, Boise, and Portland for Columbia Territory thinking that is was an area along the Columbia River that hadn't become a state yet?

	Woodchucker:	Jun 28th, 2012 at 22:42 GMT		2 points
	I did the same thing, dxdtdemon. Even tried Tacoma, Astoria, Vancouver and anything I could think of from Oregon Trail. "The Dalles" was not correct. Never considered it meant DC.

	Cecispanda:	Jul 8th, 2012 at 17:07 GMT		2 points
	Oh me too.. the first thing I guessed for that was Portland. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

	bluevw16:	Oct 23rd, 2012 at 03:26 GMT		1 point
	Crap, didn't know Brooklyn was separate! That explains why they had the dodgers!

	JDLAW5898:	Dec 15th, 2012 at 20:05 GMT		1 point
	weird to see the population of some of these cities half of what they were years ago like Baltimore, but I guess with the creation of suburbs and expansion of the US it is understandable.

	Cadda:	Dec 28th, 2012 at 13:54 GMT		-1 points
	No idea what the Union is. Got 7 which I think is alright for a non-American, would have got 8 but I couldn't spell San Francisco