WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
IMMIGRATION IN INDUSTRIAL AMERICA
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Crowded tenements, often near others from their home country
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Lived in spacious places that were far from people that came from their home country
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Houses run by reformers, where immigrants learned language and work skills
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Company-owned towns with many social controls
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -What Is Tenement Housing? In the 19th century, tenement housing was single-family buildings divided into multiple living spaces. Often narrow, low-rise apartments, the rooms were built “railroad style” which meant rooms without windows and poor ventilation.
Detailed explanation-3: -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. Jews lived on Lower East Side from Rivington Street to Division Street and Bowery to Norfolk street. This was where they started lives in America.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.