https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79 What does each photograph suggest about what life was like for homesteaders on the Great Plains in the 1880s? Add 3! en-us 2021-02-01 12:52:29 UTC 2025-10-11 14:00:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148440234 Thousands of African Americans moved to the Great Plains to try and escape southern injustice and oppression.]]> 2021-02-01 12:55:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148440234 rpmoore1 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148441673 Doesn't look like Cary!]]> 2021-02-01 12:55:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148441673 eecanezvillasenor https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148444903 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.]]> 2021-02-01 12:56:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148444903 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148446474 Homesteaders had to endure a lot of bad weather which resulted in their homes becoming damaged.]]> 2021-02-01 12:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148446474 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148447306 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.]]> 2021-02-01 12:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148447306 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148449859 Horses took a big part in transportation since cars were in early stages of development back then.]]> 2021-02-01 12:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148449859 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148450168 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 12:57:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148450168 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148450201 With three kids and two parents the house seems far too small for all of them to live comfortably. ]]> 2021-02-01 12:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148450201 eecanezvillasenor https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148450503 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 12:58:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148450503 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148451216 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.]]> 2021-02-01 12:58:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148451216 abolisetty1 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148451622 Lack of technology and efficient transportation forced people to build sod houses instead of wood houses.]]> 2021-02-01 12:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148451622 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148451951 Looking at the house, it seems not many people have big houses. The family seems like they're used to the small house.]]> 2021-02-01 12:58:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148451951 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148452752 2021-02-01 12:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148452752 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148452818 weather for the homesteaders was unpredictable and caused a lot of problems.]]> 2021-02-01 12:58:40 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148452818 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148454586 houses seemed small and quite unstable since they were made of sod.]]> 2021-02-01 12:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148454586 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148454861 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 12:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148454861 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148455415 Having three children whose mother just died as well as having your home collapse in on itself shows how hard it was.]]> 2021-02-01 12:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148455415 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148455622 Homes weren't stable enough to endure some of the weather that came through, leaving family's in unpredictable situations. ]]> 2021-02-01 12:59:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148455622 abolisetty1 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148455741 Even with such heavy rains the land in the photographs still looks dry which was a defining characteristic of the West.]]> 2021-02-01 12:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148455741 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148456291 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 12:59:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148456291 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148456908 Judging from the caption and photo, they were poor and had to work hard to get stuff.]]> 2021-02-01 12:59:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148456908 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148457946 The houses literally caved in from rain.]]> 2021-02-01 13:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148457946 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148458035 Show that African Americans would do anything to have an attempt to be free. Even if it means moving hundreds of miles.]]> 2021-02-01 13:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148458035 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148458039 Thousands of acres of crops]]> 2021-02-01 13:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148458039 abolisetty1 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148458705 Lots of land, but little houses. Very different compared to what you would see in today's world.]]> 2021-02-01 13:00:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148458705 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148459242 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]]> 2021-02-01 13:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148459242 ssgaddam https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148459334 all families had an agricultural lifestyle to support themselves. Cattle were standard and they lived a simple life]]> 2021-02-01 13:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148459334 eecanezvillasenor https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148460672 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148460672 ssgaddam https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148461182 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]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148461182 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148461417  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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148461417 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148461634 Sod homes were not very stable when faced with harsh weather conditions]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148461634 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148462083 2021-02-01 13:01:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148462083 emhill1 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148462454  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. 

]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148462454 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463043 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463043 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463048 African Americans moved to the Great plains hoping for a new life from oppresion]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463048 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463404 not a lot of new technology got in the Plains so it was rare to get photos.]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463404 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463408 Document B shows that homesteaders had poorly built houses because that's all they had and when bad weather came the house fell apart.]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463408 emhill1 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463413 Seems more homely with two houses next to each other. Unlike the previous photos, these houses are made out of stone rather than sod. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463413 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463660 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148463660 emhill1 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148464719 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.

]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148464719 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148464723 Most people had there own farm land and animals]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148464723 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148464731 It suggests that homesteaders had access to a lot of animals.

]]> 2021-02-01 13:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148464731 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148465305 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148465305 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148465469 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148465469 edsevim https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148466314 Life was very barren, everything looked dull, and materials were scarce. Needed to use what they could find.]]> 2021-02-01 13:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148466314 ssgaddam https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148466329 african americans traveled long distances westward so that they could have the opportunity to own land and not be oppressed]]> 2021-02-01 13:02:21 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148466329 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148466355 People moved away from the Great Plains, hoping to start a new life without any injustice happening.]]> 2021-02-01 13:02:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148466355 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148469336 It suggests that homesteaders had access to a lot of crops.]]> 2021-02-01 13:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148469336 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148470569 With that many people in one house, the house they have seems way to small. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:03:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148470569 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148471100 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148471100 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148471564 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148471564 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148471884 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148471884 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148475086 2021-02-01 13:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148475086 edsevim https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148476529 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148476529 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148476607 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148476607 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148477127 2021-02-01 13:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148477127 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148477243 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:05:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148477243 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148477261 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]]> 2021-02-01 13:05:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148477261 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148477496 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:05:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148477496 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148478626 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:05:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148478626 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148479220 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148479220 edsevim https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148482220 African Americans saw an opportunity to get land and escape oppression by moving to the Great Plains

]]> 2021-02-01 13:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148482220 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148483054 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148483054 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148483314 2021-02-01 13:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148483314 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148483797 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148483797 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148484304 2021-02-01 13:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148484304 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148487506 Due to the bad weather, homesteaders had to experience their homes becoming impaired. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:07:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148487506 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148487632 2021-02-01 13:07:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148487632 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148489075 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148489075 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148498096 most houses were made out of sod because they didn't have enough wood to build majority of the houses. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148498096 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148498375 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:10:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148498375 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148499898  It sounds like most of the people had much desperation on the great plains. They wanted to make a better life for themselves.]]> 2021-02-01 13:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148499898 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148503519 2021-02-01 13:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148503519 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148504458 Heavy rain caused the roof of the house to collapse. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148504458 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148511348 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. 

]]> 2021-02-01 13:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148511348 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148512795 Small homes with large families. I see many acres of crops in the background, it seems that is how they make their living. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148512795 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148513906 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. 

]]> 2021-02-01 13:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148513906 ogcatron https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148515751 Weather was very unpredictable at the time and with their current resources they had little to combat it.]]> 2021-02-01 13:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148515751 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148529565 Families were ashamed of what they lacked, which was a full stable home in most cases]]> 2021-02-01 13:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148529565 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148531250 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148531250 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148533009  After being enslaved, many African Americans went to the Great Plains to own land for themselves and escape inequality and oppression.]]> 2021-02-01 13:18:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148533009 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148538526 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 13:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148538526 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148545804 2021-02-01 13:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148545804 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148546379 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.]]> 2021-02-01 13:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148546379 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148550334 2021-02-01 13:22:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148550334 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148565899 This family was ashamed and embarrassed of the state of their house because times were so hard back then for larger families.]]> 2021-02-01 13:26:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1148565899 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150218590  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]]> 2021-02-01 18:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150218590 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150223748  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]]> 2021-02-01 18:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150223748 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150227351 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.

]]> 2021-02-01 18:16:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150227351 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150229214 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

]]> 2021-02-01 18:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150229214 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150231838 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

]]> 2021-02-01 18:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150231838 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150914737 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 20:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150914737 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150918951 A big thing that stood out was the fact that they had a decent sized family with very little space in their house. ]]> 2021-02-01 20:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150918951 https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150922224 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. ]]> 2021-02-01 20:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rpmoore1/r8ad9b59kjamph79/wish/1150922224