SJH Wyvern
Lesson Objectives
• To understand the problems faced by
homesteaders on the Plains.
• To evaluate the solutions to these
problems
• To investigate the role of women on the
Plains
• In pairs, write down as many problems as you
can think of for the homesteaders living on
the Plains in the 1850s and 1860s
• What solutions can you think of?
Sodhouses (dirt, dried grass, infested)
Poor
quality
land prairie,
dry
Role for men
and women
Lack of
wood for
building
Back
break
-ing
farm
work
Extended families
Bad weather,
wind, rain, hot sun