Question

Read more about tenement houses and city life in the slums. Take your time looking at the pictures provided and consider what life would be like living in an overpopulated, odor-filled, and disease-ridden tenement. Then write a short essay (2–3 paragraphs) explaining why, in light of all the problems that occurred in tenement living, so many people continued to move into cities. Be sure to include your personal perspective on city living at the turn of the century, while also incorporating what you have read.

I need 1 paragraph I wrote 1.

Answer 1

Answer:

it would be gross because their would be rats and dirt everywhere because this is slums were it is were the poor lived and it made it hard to stay clean

Explanation:

they needed to make money to support their families and they believed that living in cities gave their families better lives.  a better chance at life than they had when they lived in rural areas. Where cities were far and it made it hard to get to work because their weren't many means of transportation. even in these disgusting conditions people still needed to make a living in order to survive without a job they would go broke and homeless and die of starvation

Answer 2

Answer:

Think of how you would feel having to live in the slums. That's all they're asking you to do. Overcrowded, living besides strangers, no ammenaties that you're comfortable with today, like electricity and running water. It would be hard.

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