I had the Housings in the cities.
The immigration caused the cities to become very crowded. More people went to bigger cities for work and business. The houses got full, fast. Families lived out on the streets. Streets were full of trash and waste. There wasn't indoor plumbing at the time.
During the 1880s and 1890s, cities like New York, Boston, and Chicago became very popular for homes of the immigrants. They came from Italy, Russia and Eastern Europe. Chicago had the first skyscrapers. Most of the immigrants were unskilled and worked in the factories. In the inner city tenements, whole families occupied the smallest of quarters usually served with only one bath. By 1890, over half of all New York buildings were tenements.
By the 1920's, more people lived in cities than rural areas. It was then that America was known as an "urban nation."
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