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- 1. Multiple Choice
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
- 2. Multiple Choice
In 1900, two-thirds of Manhattan's residents lived in tenements.
True
False
- 3. Multiple Choice
In tenements, many apartments were spacious with a lot natural light coming in through windows.
True
False
- 4. Multiple Choice
Poorly built overcrowded apartment buildings were
settlement houses
skyscrapers
tenements
benevolent societies
- 5. Multiple Choice
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
- 6. Multiple Choice
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.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Immigrants could not afford to live in apartments with high rent so they would live in these buildings
tenements
settlement houses
ethnic neighborhoods
- 8. Multiple Choice
Jacob Riis exposed the horrible conditions in New York City and wrote How the Other Half Lives
tenements
schools
factories
sweatshops
- 9. Multiple Choice
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
- 10. Multiple Choice
Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr started the _____ in Chicago in 1889.
settlement house
school
hull house
library
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