DIRECTIONS: Search these sites to find the answers to the questions below.
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement
A Tenement Story
http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html
- What year was the building at 97 Orchard Street completed? ________
- How many apartments were in the building? _________
- The "old" law of 1867 required tenements to have one toilet for how many people? ________
- About how many people lived at 97 Orchard Street in the 71 years it was open? _________
- Where did the Rogarshevsky family emigrate from? _____________
- What was the Confino family's religion? ___________________
- About how much did it cost to build 97 Orchard Street? ______________
- In what year did the building close? __________
- How much money did a dressmaker make in the 1870s? ___________
- How many Europeans were allowed to immigrate to the United States after 1924? _______________
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