Tenement Conditions

A tenement is _________________________________.

• a dumbbell-shaped brick apartment building, four to six stories in height consisting of rooms or a set of rooms within a house or block of apartments

• living conditions in New York in 1900

• the baseball stadium in New York

• a luxury condominium

In 1900, two-thirds of Manhattan's residents lived in tenements.

• True

• False

In tenements, many apartments were spacious with a lot natural light coming in through windows.

• True

• False

Poorly built overcrowded apartment buildings were

• settlement houses

• skyscrapers

• tenements

• benevolent societies

What major trend occurred to the population of the United States during the industrial expansion of the late nineteenth century?

• farm population increased

• migration to rural areas increased

• immigration decreased

• urbanization increased

What is the main idea of this passage?

• The conditions of tenement living have improved greatly.

• The number of people living in tenements is declining.

• Many immigrants face crowded conditions and despair in tenement housing.

• Living in tenements has led to improved working class conditions.

Immigrants could not afford to live in apartments with high rent so they would live in these buildings

• tenements

• settlement houses

• ethnic neighborhoods

Jacob Riis exposed the horrible conditions in New York City and wrote How the Other Half Lives

• tenements

• schools

• factories

• sweatshops

In New York State the Tenement House Act passed

• Cut working hours to eight hours

• Required new buildings to have better ventilation in bathrooms and running water

• Prevented child labor

• Created sanitation codes

Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr started the _____ in Chicago in 1889.

• settlement house

• school

• hull house

• library