HISTORY
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tenements (also called tenement houses) are urban dwellings occupied by impoverished families. They are apartment houses that barely meet or fail to meet the minimum standards of safety, sanitation, and comfort.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Jewish immigrants that flocked to New York City’s Lower East Side in the early twentieth century were greeted with appalling living conditions. The mass influx of primarily European immigrants spawned the construction of cheaply made, densely packed housing structures called tenements.
Detailed explanation-3: -The jobs people found paid low wages so many people had to live together. 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: -The expression “tenement house” was used to designate a building subdivided to provide cheap rental accommodation, which was initially a subdivision of a large house. Beginning in the 1850s, purpose-built tenements of up to six stories held several households on each floor.