Immigrants who lived in the Lower East Side tennement had to pay for their apartments.This means they were renters.
True False
Which of the following best describes the word housing?
a large house for many people
an apartment complex
houses or apartments in which people live
a tenement with apartments for immigrants
A housing development for low-income families that is owned by a government and operated by a private company is called a pulic housing project.
True False
Which one of the following statements is true?
New York's Tenement Museum building was built in 1863 by a Chinese imigrant
From the start,the tenement apartments had running water.
There are actors in the Tenement Museum who play some of the people who used to live there
The Lavine family didn't have any children
Today,the word tenement describes an old crowded building where poor families live in unhealthy conditions
True False
Which object belonging to immigrants from the lower East Side tenement was NOT found by museum officials?
newspapers
letters
beer bottles
money
medicine bottles