2. Tenement Life in the Early 20 th Century Background to Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

3. Immigration in the Mid-19 th Century

4. Massive Overcrowding The Council survey revealed that 495,592 people more than half the entire population of the City - lived in tenements. On the Lower East Side, the numbers worked out to 240,000 people to the square-mile.

5. Tenement Conditions

8. The End of Tenements

9. Resources used thehistorybox.com/ny_city/tenement_life_nycity.html thehistorybox.com/ny_city/tenement_life_nycity.htm www.maggieblanck.com/NewYork/Life.html http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/eagle.html

10. More information Tenement Museum located at 108 Orchard Street www.tenement.org/