working class
they had sewage water everywhere and people lived together in small tenements.
Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
Working class. Manual workers.
Irish immigrants lived in tenements.......
poor families lived in the citys center. the cities had buildings called tenements also known as apartments to give them shelter. normally 10 people were put into one bedroom.
they had sewage water everywhere and people lived together in small tenements.
recent immigrants
They lived in tenements and worked in factories.(OW)
immigrants
Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
The poor lived in tenements, which are like modern day slums.
Tenements were meant for 6-8 people, but a lot of times tenements would be filled with more than 60 people.
Jacob Riis exposed the problem in tenements by taking pictures of the life in tenements. He showed these pictures to the government and to the people populated in areas which held a lot of tenements where many immigrants lived.
They lived in areas of large cities called slums.
The rich lived in villages on the outskirts of the cities, the poor lived in slums or tenements.
Working class. Manual workers.
People lived in tenements because of there low paying jobs often forced them yo move into and tenement which is a poorly built, overcrowded apartment building.