Which term describes crowded urban housing commonly inhabited by immigrants in the late 19th century?

• A. Tenements
• B. Row Houses
• C. Condos
• D. Apartments

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is recognizing the term used for the crowded urban housing that immigrant families often lived in during the late 1800s. When cities grew fast and factories drew in large numbers of new workers from abroad, developers built tall, multi-family buildings to house many people. These were known as tenements. They were typically crowded, with many small rooms, narrow stairwells, and limited light and ventilation, reflecting the harsh living conditions of urbanization at the time and the housing shortage faced by new arrivals.

Other housing types existed in cities, like row houses, which are attached homes but not specifically tied to the immigrant crowds of that era. Condos and the modern sense of apartments as we know them today weren’t the defining housing form for late 19th-century urban immigrants. Tenements best capture that historical experience of crowded immigrant housing.