Good question. I can't find any data about newspaper circulations to answer it though. I found sources saying there were about 3 million US adults then, and that over 90 percent of the men were literate. Since many women were not, the OVERALL literacy rate was about 60 percent.
Good question. I can't find any data about newspaper circulations to answer it though. I found sources saying there were about 3 million US adults then, and that over 90 percent of the men were literate. Since many women were not, the OVERALL literacy rate was about 60 percent.
Good question. I can't find any data about newspaper circulations to answer it though. I found sources saying there were about 3 million US adults then, and that over 90 percent of the men were literate. Since many women were not, the OVERALL literacy rate was about 60 percent.