WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Prospecting
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Tenements
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Country life
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A farmer’s life
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Detailed explanation-1: -a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
Detailed explanation-2: -ten·e·ment ˈte-nə-mənt. : any of various forms of property (as land) that is held by one person from another. : an estate in property. : dwelling. History and Etymology for tenement.
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: -Known as tenements, these narrow, low-rise apartment buildings–many of them concentrated in the city’s Lower East Side neighborhood–were all too often cramped, poorly lit and lacked indoor plumbing and proper ventilation.