The State of New York outlawed the dumbbell shaped tenement buildings in 1901. The New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 banned the poorly lit and poorly ventilated buildings.
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The thirteenth amendment outlawed slavery in the United States.
Many immigrants lived in urban apartment slums called flats. These flats held a great many people and were often overcrowded.
Jacob Riis exposed the problem in tenements by taking pictures of the life in tenements. He showed these pictures to the government and to the people populated in areas which held a lot of tenements where many immigrants lived.
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