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