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U5W2- Social Studies Homesteaders and Sod Houses
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What resource did homesteaders use to build their houses when there were no trees or stones?
Sod
Sand
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What were houses made of sod called?
Soddies
Shacks
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How long might settlers live in their soddy before building a wooden house?
One month
Six or seven years
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What did many families use to divide one-room sod houses?
A wall of glass
A quilt
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What often happened to old soddies once families built wooden houses?
They were turned into schools
They became homes for farm animals
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How did thick sod walls help settlers?
Kept houses cool in summer and warm in winter
Made the houses look pretty
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What helped hold the sod together?
Wooden boards
Prairie grass and roots
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What problem sometimes occurred inside sod houses?
Snowstorms blew inside
Bugs fell into the house
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What material did builders put under hay or grass for the roof?
Metal sheets
Woven sticks
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Why couldn’t sod roofs be as thick as the walls?
They wouldn’t look nice
They would be too heavy
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What often happened to sod roofs when it rained?
They turned into stone
They leaked
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Why were trees scarce on the Great Plains?
People cut down too many forests
The land was mostly open prairie
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Why did settlers want wooden houses eventually?
More comfortable and sturdy
Easier to move
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How many rooms did most sod houses have?
One room
Four rooms
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What was hung in the soddy to separate space?
A quilt
A curtain of stone
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What was the main building material of homesteaders before they had money?
Cement bricks
Sod blocks
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