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Thousands of African Americans moved to the Great Plains to try and escape southern injustice and oppression.

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Doesn't look like Cary!

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African americans saw this as an opportunity to move to the Great plains and start a new life without the oppression they experienced through in the south.

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Homesteaders had to endure a lot of bad weather which resulted in their homes becoming damaged.

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Families may not have been in the best living state, seeing as this family took their piano outside to avoid having their house be seen.

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Horses took a big part in transportation since cars were in early stages of development back then.

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There doesn't seem to be many useful resources out west, so it was probably hard for most homesteaders to get started on creating their new lives. It also doesn't look like there were many people out west so it was probably hard to trade goods.

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With three kids and two parents the house seems far too small for all of them to live comfortably.

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People moving to the Great Plains had to endure the bad weather with the lack of technology even from their time in order to survive out there.

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according to the caption, living conditions were very poor; they did not want to photograph the inside of their home. It seems most people kept cattle as well.

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Lack of technology and efficient transportation forced people to build sod houses instead of wood houses.

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Looking at the house, it seems not many people have big houses. The family seems like they're used to the small house.

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Document A shows that houses were not made out of wood yet. People had a different style. In this photograph it also shows horses which means that was their form of transportation.

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weather for the homesteaders was unpredictable and caused a lot of problems.

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Even with such heavy rains the land in the photographs still looks dry which was a defining characteristic of the West.

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African Americans moved to the Great plains hoping for a new life from oppresion

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houses seemed small and quite unstable since they were made of sod.

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Homes weren't stable enough to endure some of the weather that came through, leaving family's in unpredictable situations.

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Having three children whose mother just died as well as having your home collapse in on itself shows how hard it was.

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Houses were made out of sod because there was not many trees and the surrounding of the house was only grass implying that there may be a lack of resources on the great plains.

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Judging from the caption and photo, they were poor and had to work hard to get stuff.

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The houses literally caved in from rain.

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Thousands of acres of crops

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Show that African Americans would do anything to have an attempt to be free. Even if it means moving hundreds of miles.

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Lots of land, but little houses. Very different compared to what you would see in today's world.

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Since certain building materials were scare, most families had to use what was around them to make small family homes, that didn’t usually have windows

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all families had an agricultural lifestyle to support themselves. Cattle were standard and they lived a simple life

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Families that had moved to the great plains and had gone through hardships didn't want their family to worry so they didn't show the state of their house in order to do so.

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Document A shows a family standing in front of their home and they look like they got a long day of work ahead of them

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It looks like they built their house and are developing the rest of their homestead. They did not have wood to build their house so they used what they could find.

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Sod homes were not very stable when faced with harsh weather conditions

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 It looks like they built their house and are developing the rest of their homestead. They did not have wood to build their house so they used what they could find.

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Living conditions and a lack of any form of doctors resulted in a mother’s death. The house structure is poor enough to collapse, giving away that the houses were not structurally sound.

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African Americans used the Great Plains as an escape from injustice to pursue in what they dreamed of doing but never got the opportunity to.

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not a lot of new technology got in the Plains so it was rare to get photos.

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Document B shows that homesteaders had poorly built houses because that's all they had and when bad weather came the house fell apart.

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Because there were not many resources to use out west, sod was pretty much the only option to build homes. But it was not very sturdy and did not do well under harsh weather conditions.

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Seems more homely with two houses next to each other. Unlike the previous photos, these houses are made out of stone rather than sod.

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Most people had there own farm land and animals

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It suggests that homesteaders had access to a lot of animals.

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This is the smallest house by far and seems to be constructed of mixed materials, seems to be more stable but too small for the family of five. Still no sign of farmland or anything to support the family.

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In this document I noticed how they have acres of land and crops behind them, but their house is very small for the amount of people in this family pictured in the photo. It seems to be that this house is made out of many mixed materials.

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This document shows that the homesteaders were somewhat ashamed of their living conditions and wanted to show their relatives that they had a better life. This meant that they hid things that would show otherwise like their tiny sod houses.

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Life was very barren, everything looked dull, and materials were scarce. Needed to use what they could find.

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african americans traveled long distances westward so that they could have the opportunity to own land and not be oppressed

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People moved away from the Great Plains, hoping to start a new life without any injustice happening.

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It suggests that homesteaders had access to a lot of crops.

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According to the caption it says that, the family wants to send their photo to their family In the East but they did not want to show their house for some particular reason.

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With that many people in one house, the house they have seems way to small.

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The homesteaders did not like their living conditions and wish their life was better so in order to show that they had a good one, they blocked the view of the house.

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Horses are a prominent way of travel and living conditions are very poor because the sod is not a sturdy material to use to build a house.

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This family looks to be more established, and lives closer to other people. It looks like they had more natural resources to build their home.

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In the image you can see that the homesteaders did not bring a lot with them and lived in pretty bad conditions based on the image, which shows only a small hut with a horse and cart along with some barrels. They also seemed to have a lot of land around them.

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Document C says that african americans fled to the great plains to avoid oppression and injustice.

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In this document it says that the African Americans moved away from the Great Plains, so they could start a new life and get away from the oppression and injustice.

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Living conditions were so poor that they were not to be captured in a photo and there were many farms. Wanted to capture what was good in their lives and show that off.

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This document suggests that homes were done by the family themselves not professionals so the homes probably did not provide good shelter or safety such as if it rained. 

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Homesteaders tended to have pretty poor living conditions so when taking photographs they chose not to include their house because they weren’t exactly proud of their homes

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Families come to the west to get away from slavery, oppression and certain laws. This family looks like they have been there for longer than some other families in the pictures. Their new lives and homes are more developed than some.

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The picture showed that moving to the Great Plains could offer new opportunities and safety for former slaves to be free from the harassment of white people on newly freed slaves.

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African Americans saw an opportunity to get land and escape oppression by moving to the Great Plains

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The fact that they didn't want the state of the home to be seen, tells us how poor living conditions were at the time.

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many African Americans moved to get land and move from the south.

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This family seems to be growing something around their house which implies that they are farmers, their house also looks far to small to fit their entire family. Their house does look sturdier than the rest which may mean that because they are farmers they are wealthier.

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Life was most likely incredibly difficult as not only is there less access to materials as you would get in the east. Now everything needs to be done by hand and can be incredibly hard to do with only a small family rather than a whole community.

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Due to the bad weather, homesteaders had to experience their homes becoming impaired.

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 Life in the great plains was difficult to gain raw materials, for example wood, to make a home. This could prove to be difficult in the winter. Houses probably weren’t as stable.

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This family did not want to show their house, but wanted to show off their piano. The photo also shows their land and their horses behind them. It seems like they picked the area that they were most proud of to show in the picture.

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most houses were made out of sod because they didn't have enough wood to build majority of the houses.

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It’s crazy to think that there were hundreds of people like this, with a small house, not very many possessions and barely getting by.

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It sounds like most of the people had much desperation on the great plains. They wanted to make a better life for themselves.

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Heavy rain caused the roof of the house to collapse.

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living conditions were so bad that this family wanted to take their picture outside so people didn’t have to see their house

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African Americans are moving westward to escape oppression and slavery. This was a big risk knowing that if they got caught, their lives would be taken.

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Small homes with large families. I see many acres of crops in the background, it seems that is how they make their living.

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Weather was very unpredictable at the time and with their current resources they had little to combat it.

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Poor families living in poor conditions, underious to show how they are living. Agricultural lifestyle is common among almost everyone due to the lack of money / goods.

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Families were ashamed of what they lacked, which was a full stable home in most cases

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Seems like there wasn't many available resources in that area to build proper constructed homes. This could lead to overcrowding because how small the houses were.

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After being enslaved, many African Americans went to the Great Plains to own land for themselves and escape inequality and oppression.

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Similar to the first photo, life looked hard because people died easily without access to healthcare and again their houses were not sturdy or easy to build.

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An interesting photo, there is no house in the frame but rather all of their livestock and funnily enough a piano. I think this shows that even in hard times, people still found ways to entertain themselves with things like music. 

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African Americans felt like it was best to move to the Great Plains to finally have the freedom they've been waiting since being enslaved. The houses were made of natural resources surrounded by African Americans and had a little structure to it.

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It wasn’t just white people who took advantage of this opportunity, black families also moved for a chance to own this land but also to escape some of the oppression. The work may have been harder as they were on their own but for some it may have been worth it.

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This family was ashamed and embarrassed of the state of their house because times were so hard back then for larger families.

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depending on where your homestead was, certain materials could be scarce. It says that wood was scarce so they had to compromise and use whatever resources they had available to them

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it suggests that the homestead lifestyle is never easy because not only did the three children lose their mother but the father has to multi-task and find a way to not only provide but be there for his children since the mother is no longer present

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while the homestead lifestyle was rough, it gave African Americans a chance to own land, like the Shores family, and give them an opportunity at a better, less oppressed life.

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What seems to happen is that no matter the size of the family, homesteaders just care about having a roof over their heads with the supplies that are given to them by nature. It also seems that besides decent clothing, they don’t have much to live off of

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wanted their family to see a nice piano but didn’t want them seeing the condition of the house implying that while they had good land and livestock, their house was built to the best that it could with what resources were around them, most likely meaning it wasn’t the prettiest house

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From the tittle it shows how they were proud of the things we wouldn't think about now. They also were somewhat ashamed of the condition their house was in.

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A big thing that stood out was the fact that they had a decent sized family with very little space in their house.

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There is not much around them in the place they live and it seems like it would be hard for to have a lot available for them.

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In this document you notice how the houses aren't made out of wood but out of sod because they didn't have enough resources back then to make everyone's houses out of wood so they would use sod as a replacement to the wood.