Which of the following best describes New York City tenements in the early 1900s? crowded apartment buildings where two-thirds of the city's population lived crowded apartment buildings where a small portion of the city's population lived crowded homes outside the city where the majority of city workers lived crowded homes outside the city where immigrants lived after arriving in the US

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Shiloh Stevens

28 February, 23:35

Which of the following best describes New York City tenements in the early 1900s? crowded apartment buildings where two-thirds of the city's population lived crowded apartment buildings where a small portion of the city's population lived crowded homes outside the city where the majority of city workers lived crowded homes outside the city where immigrants lived after arriving in the US

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Darius Boone · Answer 1

A. crowded and unsanitary apartment buildings where two-thirds of the city's population lived.

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In the 19th century, lots of people began crowding into America's cities, including thousands of newly arrived immigrants seeking a better life than the one they had left behind.

In New York City; where the population doubled every decade from 1800 to 1880 buildings that had once been single-family dwellings were increasingly divided into multiple living spaces to accommodate this growing population. Known as tenements, these narrow, low-rise apartment buildings had lack services, which a normal apartment building would have. By 1900, some 2.3 million people (a full two-thirds of New York City's population) were living in tenement housing.