Dates and Thymes
The first Thanksgiving feast was held in this year
What is 1621?
The first thanksgiving was held between these two groups of people
This was the name of the pilgrims' ship
What is the Mayflower?
This was the disease that the Pilgrims brought to the colonies was devastating for Natives (Name at least one)
What are Leptospirosis and Smallpox?
This is the supposed landing site of the Pilgrims
What is Plymouth Rock?
This was the year that the Pilgrims arrived in New England
What is 1620?
This is what the majority of Americans drink on Thanksgiving
What is (Red) Wine?
This is what the pilgrims of the Plymouth colony were officially known as
What are The Pilgrim Fathers?
Aside from slaughtering, the Pilgrims also did this to the natives a few years after the first thanksgiving
What is enslaved them?
This is the landmass that the Pilgrims first arrived on
What is Cape Cod?
This is how long after their first encounter, the Pilgrims and the natives signed a peace treaty
What is one month?
This is the length of the first Thanksgiving lasted
What is three days?
This is what did the term Thanksgiving actually meant for the Pilgrims and other Puritans
What is a day of prayer and fasting?
Disease brought by the pilgrims is estimated to have wiped out this percent of the Native population in Plymouth
What is 90%?
This was the president to first proclaim thanksgiving a holiday
Who is Geoge Washington?
This was the year that Thanksgiving was declared the fourth Thursday in November, and by this President
What is 1941 and Who is FDR?
These were the foods supposedly eaten at the first Thanksgiving (Name at least one)
What are waterfowl, venison, lobster, clams, berries, fruit, pumpkin, and squash?
This is the name of a Puritan sect the majority of the Pilgrims were part of
What is the Separatists?
This is what the natives did to resolve their fear of being attacked by neighboring native confederations
What is signed a peace treaty with the pilgrims?
This is the native confederation had signed a peace treaty with the Pilgrims and had eaten at the first Thanksgiving with them.
What is the Wampanoag?
This is the year that the natives were first defeated by the pilgrims
What is 1637?
This is the year that Turkeys became a tradition for Thanksgiving and because of this decision by Abraham Lincoln
What is 1863 and Lincoln moving thanksgiving to the last Thursday in November?
This is the name for the day that descendants of many Native Americans "celebrate" on the day of Thanksgiving
What is The Day of Mourning?
This is the name of the battle at which the natives were first defeated by the pilgrims
What is the Pequot Massacre?
This native guide and interpreter to the pilgrims was crucial to their survival
Who is Squanto (Tisquantum)?