<p> Progressive Era Investigation Complete the investigation by visiting each of the Field Sites and completing the chart for each. Description-must include at least 6 details from the picture and textbook. After completing your description/summary, answer the question(s) and provide a supporting piece of evidence from the primary source to support your answer.</p><p>Field Site: Poor Living and Working Conditions Topic: Conditions in the Slums (pp. 208-209)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: What were the conditions like for people living in tenements? What role did poor infrastructure play in causing these conditions?</p><p>Evidence:</p><p>Field Site: Poor Living and Working Conditions Topic: Problems in the Workplace (p. 209)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: What were the working conditions like for workers?</p><p>Evidence: Field Site: Poor Living and Working Conditions Topic: Unsafe Products: Buyers Beware (p. 209)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: Why were many products considered unsafe for consumers? How did The Jungle help to uncover these problems?</p><p>Evidence:</p><p>Field Site: Problems with the Environment Topic: Changing the Landscape (p. 210)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: How and why did farmers and ranchers transform the landscape of America?</p><p>Evidence:</p><p>Field Site: Problems with the Environment Topic: Extracting Natural Resource (pp. 210-211)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: How did extractive industries damage the landscape of America?</p><p>Evidence: Field Site: Problems with the Environment Topic: Polluting Water and Air (p. 211)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: How did factories, animals and human sewage pollute the water and air?</p><p>Evidence:</p><p>Field Site: The Politics of Fraud and Bribery Topic: Political Machines and Bosses (p. 212)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: What were political machines and bosses?</p><p>Evidence:</p><p>Field Site: The Politics of Fraud and Bribery Topic: Corruption in Local and State Politics (pp. 212-213)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: How did political machines and bosses contribute to the corruption in local governments?</p><p>Evidence: Field Site: The Politics of Fraud and Bribery Topic: Corruption on the National Level (p. 213)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: What are some examples of corruption that existed at the National Level of government?</p><p>Evidence:</p><p>Field Site: Social Tensions Topic: Growing Differences Between Social Classes (pp.214-215)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: How did living conditions among the 3 social classes (upper, middle and lower-class) differ? Provide specific examples of where each social class lived.</p><p>Evidence:</p><p>Field Site: Social Tensions Topic: Life for African Americans</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: Why did so many African Americans move to Northern cities in the four decades after the Civil War? Evidence:</p><p>Field Site: Social Tensions Topic: Changing Role of Women (p.216)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: In what ways were women denied the same opportunities as men? </p><p>Evidence:</p><p>Field Site: Social Tensions Topic: Challenges for the American Family (p. 216)</p><p>Description </p><p>Question: What were 3 challenges that the American Family faced at the beginning of the 20th century?</p><p>Evidence:</p>
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