Industrialization 1869-1920‚” it talks about how immigrants were crowded into the poorest neighbors that were filled with crime and disease. The American Nation in the Modern Era also talks about the tenements‚ poorly built apartments‚ that immigrants lived in. Families had to start renting out rooms in tenements which were overcrowded and unsanitary due to high rent prices. Immigrants also lived within walking distance of the factories making the air around them polluted.In his article‚ Joan Saverino‚
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United States. Improving living conditions for those who lived in tenement buildings and the production of pure food were two goals reformers had. Campaigning and settlement houses were some of the methods used to achieve their goals. One goal a reformer had in the U.S. during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s was to fix the slum areas in New York City. According to document 2‚ there were dirty living conditions and the tenement buildings were overcrowded. Document two uses photography as a method
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from Stone Nullah Lane‚ Tai Yuen Street to Lee Tung Street‚ I felt astonished seeing that there exist two distinct kinds of buildings. One is antiquated eastern traditional architecture such as the Blue House cluster‚ which is all low dim narrow old tenement buildings. The other‚ however‚ is brand-new western modern architecture like Hopewell Centers. They conflict with each other‚ but coexist at the same time. Do you see major socio-economic changes in the place you visited? If yes‚ what are they?
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Labor and their working conditions Still able to legally work at the age of 14/15‚ but only an limited hours a day/week Tenement Housing Tenement houses continued to be built‚ even proved to be unsafe. Sanitation (Plumbing‚ Electricity‚ etc.) in some of the homes where non existent Yes‚ Because laws where passed to add on better living conditions for people that lived in Tenement houses. Still a slight issue for people in poverty‚ but overall lawfully there are limits to how many people can live in
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The Progressive Movement was started as a response to political and business abuses. Many people were suffering from unhealthy living and working conditions. There were also injustices in the government. Reforms were initiated by individuals and groups of people to improve this. One problem people were facing was women’s voting rights. Beginning in the mid 1800’s‚ several woman suffrage supporters did whatever they could to fight for their right to vote. Women were not allowed to vote until 1920
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corporations were located. However‚ these jobs would lead two very little pay at all‚ not even enough to sustain a house that was relatively nice. The houses the workers could afford were in the cities and called tenements‚ they were masses of poor people all live together 2-4 families in each tenement in the apartment type building. This led to really bad conditions due to the lack of plumbing and bathrooms in each tournament. So they had to find other means of getting rid of this waste and bathing‚ like
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shortly joined the insurrection‚ had the rank of colonel‚ and was wounded in action. When the hostilities ceased and the country came under American rule‚ he built a successful practice in law. Around 1906‚ after the death of his first wife‚ he married Salomé Márquez‚ Nick’s mother. A friend of General Emilio Aguinaldo‚ Leocadio was a popular lawyer in Manila and the Southern Tagalog provinces. He was unsuccessful however when he made a bid for a seat in the Philippine Assembly representing Laguna. Nick
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struggled to survive‚ the streets were jammed with people‚ horses‚ push carts and garbage. There houses were known as Tenements‚ Tenements where usually six to seven stories high and divided into small apartments. The tenements were in very poor living conditions‚ they had no windows‚ heat‚ or indoor bathrooms‚ and they had to fit 10 people per room. Since the slums and tenements where in such poor conditions disease and sickness occurred rapidly. But despite the poor conditions the population in
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“Drew up outside the brown tenement… Somebody has written in chalk the words YA BASS” The author describes the tenements as brown which the reader interprets as a connotation of poverty and dirt‚ which casts an interesting contrast to Mr Jackson himself who arrived driving a “black polished car” and wearing a “square red ring”. The words “polished” and “red ring” indicate wealth and pride‚ even though he seems proud to come from such a poor area. “He looked up at the tenement with the cheerful animation
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New York harbor. When the immigrants arrived they were poor so they lived in what was called tenements because they were cheap. Tenements were single-family homes carved up into multi-family dwellings or apartment buildings. Each apartment had only three rooms: a living or front room‚ a kitchen‚ and a tiny bedroom. Every so often seven or more people lived in each apartment. Not only was the tenement crowded‚ but there were no bathrooms inside until 1905.
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