USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tenement apartments were small and crowded. In ethnic neighborhoods, immigrants felt less homesick and less lonely. Most immigrants spoke English. Between 1865 and 1900, about 1, 400 immigrants arrived in the United States.

Detailed explanation-2: -In one New York tenement, up to 18 people lived in each apartment. Each apartment had a wood-burning stove and a concrete bathtub in the kitchen, which, when covered with planks, served as a dining table. Before 1901, residents used rear-yard outhouses. Afterward, two common toilets were installed on each floor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Therefore, tenements were the only places new immigrants could afford. Tenements were small three room apartments with many people living in it. About 2, 905, 125 Jewish and Italian immigrants lived in the tenements on the Lower East Side.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -By 1900, more than 80, 000 tenements had been built in New York City. They housed a population of 2.3 million people, a full two-thirds of the city’s total population of around 3.4 million.