USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What advantages led some immigrants to settle in ethnic neighborhoods? They spoke their native languages and re-created the churches, synagogues, clubs, and newspapers of their homelands. Why did many Chinese come to the United States? China was suffering from severe unemployment, poverty, famine, and a civil war.

Detailed explanation-2: -They moved into poverty stricken neighborhoods and into neglected buildings known as tenements, which are “multifamily dwellings with several apartment-like living quarters”. Tenements were most common in the Lower East Side of New York City, the area in which a majority of immigrants found themselves settling in.

Detailed explanation-3: -Because most immigrants were poor when they arrived, they often lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where rents for the crowded apartment buildings, called tenements, were low. The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is in a building that used to be a tenement and it tells the story of immigrants in the City.

Detailed explanation-4: -After a pause in European immigration during the U.S. Civil War, more than 20 million immigrants arrived-primarily from Southern and Eastern Europe-between 1880 and 1920.