WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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The living conditions of tenements improved greatly
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The number of people living in tenements declined
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Many immigrants lived in crowded tenements
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Tenements were torn down and rebuilt
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Detailed explanation-1: -The buildings themselves were usually five to seven stories high and divided into multiple living spaces. Families who lived in the tenements were crammed into 300-400 square foot apartments that featured a single bedroom, kitchen, and a front room for everyone to share.
Detailed explanation-2: -The new groups arriving by the boatload in the Gilded Age were characterized by few of these traits. Their nationalities included Greek, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Serb, Russian, Croat, and others. Until cut off by federal decree, Japanese and Chinese settlers relocated to the American West Coast.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cramped, poorly lit, under ventilated, and usually without indoor plumbing, the tenements were hotbeds of vermin and disease, and were frequently swept by cholera, typhus, and tuberculosis.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the Gilded Age there were around 11.7 million people that came to America. From those 11.7 million immigrants10. 6 million of those immigrants came from Europe, which made up 90 percent of the immigration population. The Canadians made up 6.7 percent and then the Chinese made up 1.7 percent.