Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule

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Across
  1. 5. carpenter who helps build and solve problems
  2. 7. joyful celebration of freedom
  3. 10. violent groups who attacked at night
  4. 12. very large farm in the South where enslaved people were forced to work
  5. 13. big idea—living free and making choices
  6. 15. settling on land to build a home and farm it
  7. 17. unit to measure land (about 3/4 of a football field)
  8. 18. younger traveler; curious and hopeful
  9. 21. school and reading as a path to a better future
  10. 22. Freedmen’s ______; agency that helped with food, jobs, and schools
Down
  1. 1. bravery to act even when it’s risky
  2. 2. Miss ______; teacher at the new school
  3. 3. person who worked to end slavery
  4. 4. first-person narrator of the story
  5. 6. what a family makes to show “this land is ours”
  6. 8. Pascal’s protective, determined older brother
  7. 9. person from the North who moved South after the Civil War (often not trusted)
  8. 11. people who must leave home because it’s not safe
  9. 14. the family’s farm is called Green ______
  10. 16. legal paper that proves who owns land
  11. 19. people helping and protecting one another
  12. 20. white neighbor children whose friendship helps keep the farm safer