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Tenements were being created
Buildings that had once been single-family dwellings were increasingly divided into multiple living spaces to accommodate this growing population. The population was growing due to immigration. -
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tenements were not beneficial to gilded age
Tenements were overall not beneficial to the gilded age especially for the poor class. -
Chorlea epidiemic in New York CIty
Took some 5,000 lives, many of them poor people living in overcrowded housing. -
Destructive fire ,Four tenement houses were destroyed
Two mothers and their eight children died in the fire on West-Forty Fifth-street New York -
The Tenement House Act of 1867
Required a "window or ventilator" in each sleeping room, a fire escape, and "good and sufficient water-closets or privies" for every tenement house. The law forbade cesspools, making their use a misdemeanor. Instead, all new tenement houses "should be graded and drained, and connected with the sewer. -
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Chicago Fire of 1871
Led to restrictions on building wood-frame structures in the center of the city and encouraged the construction of lower-income dwellings on the city’s outskirts. -
" How the Other Half Lives" was published
Brought light into how the tenement conditions were -
More than 80,000 tenements had been built
By 1900 more than 80,000 tenements had been built in New York City. -
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Most tenements were removed
Most of the ill tenements and slums were removed and replaced with apartments in Chicago