Immigration+Past+and+Present

__Immigration! __ __My Background (: __ Hi :D My family immigrates from England and Ireland. My mother's mother, my grandmother, is directly from Acton, England. She immigrated here during WWII. My mother's father's mother, my great grandmother, is directly from a place near Galway Bay Ireland. She immigrated to the United States because of my grandparents getting married. My father's grandparents, my great grandparents, are both directly from Ireland.

Flag of Ireland (Right)** __Why People Immigrate!__ 
 * The Cross of St. George, England's Flag (Left)



__Tenement Housing Questions!__
//a. What is a tenement house? (You may have to search other sites to answer this question) b.. How did immigration lead to the creation of tenement housing? c. What is life like for new immigrants in the early 1900's? What is life like in tenement housing? d. What potential obstacles can you see for recently arrived immigrants in the early 1900s?//

a. A tenement house is basically a run-down, crappy, overcrowded building that is divided into small apartments that barely has anything in it.

b. Immigration lead to the creation of tenement housing because of the large amounts of immigrants immigrating into America. The immigrants would obviously need somewhere to stay, so tenements were built to house not so wealthy immigrants who couldn't really afford a regular house, which there was an abundant population of. The tenements were very overcrowded because of all of the immigrants immigrating to the "Land of Opportunities" and needing a place of shelter.

c. For new immigrants in the early 1900's, America wasn't all what it was cracked up to be to them. They would see posters of even the ships that they would have to take to get to Ellis Island and it would be completley different when they expierenced it, so were the housing. To live in tenement housing, was very hard. Tenement housing was very crowded, dark and super overcrowded.

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