What term describes urban neighborhoods where immigrants lived in close-knit cultural communities?

• A. Tenements
• B. New Immigrants
• C. Ethnic Ghettos
• D. Nativists

Answer: (C)

When immigrants moved to cities, many formed close-knit communities by clustering in neighborhoods where they could share language, customs, churches, and everyday support. These areas acted as cultural hubs that helped newcomers adjust while preserving their traditions, often with ethnic shops, newspapers, and clubs sustaining the community.

That idea is captured by the term ethnic ghettos, which describes a concentrated, culturally cohesive neighborhood where a particular immigrant group lives together. Tenements refer to the crowded apartment buildings where people often lived, not the social and cultural clustering itself. New Immigrants describes who moved, not the neighborhood pattern. Nativists are people who opposed immigration, not a type of neighborhood. So the best fit is ethnic ghettos.