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