Presidents
This President was the first to pardon a turkey.
John F. Kennedy
This meat was brought to the first Thanksgiving by the Native Americans.
Deer
Name the pilgrim ship that brought the settlers to Plymouth Rock
The Mayflower
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade concludes with this.
the arrival of Santa Claus
This meat is the most popular alternative to turkey on Thanksgiving.
Ham
This President made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday?
Abraham Lincoln
In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and this tribe, starting with the letter W, shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as on of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies.
Wampanoag
This month is widely credited as the month in which very first Thanksgiving celebration took place.
September
To try and shed some extra pounds around Thanksgiving the first one of these took place in Buffalo, NY in 1896.
Turkey Trot
Statistically, this is America's favorite Thanksgiving side dish?
This President who's name shares that of a state capital declared two Thanksgivings in one year.
James Madison (in 1815 one in the spring and one in the fall)
Other than Black Friday, this holiday is also celebrated the day after Thanksgiving.
Native American Heritage Day
This is how long the first Thanksgiving lasted.
3 days
Originating from Greek mythology is the idea of this, also referred to as "the horn of plenty".
a cornucopia
This well known company and supplier of Turkeys actually set up a Turkey Talk Line and receives over 100,000 calls every season.
Butterball
This President is given credit for officially making Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday of every November after an unsuccessful attempt to make it the third Thursday to help boost the economy for the holiday season.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This, now commonly associated with Thanksgiving, likely wasn't part of the first Thanksgiving as the Native Americans used them as a dye and to heal wounds.
Cranberries
Sarah Josepha Hale began a campaign in 1827 and is largely credited with her push to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. She is also known for writing which well-known children's song.
Mary Had a Little Lamb
In 1953, a Swanson employee accidently made a colossal error and ordered 260 tons of Thanksgiving turkeys which ultimately led to the creation of these.
TV Dinners
According to The American Pie Council, an estimated 50 million of these are served on Thanksgiving, making it the second most popular pie.
Pumpkin
This President with initials of the same letter once received a live raccoon as a Thanksgiving present.
Calvin Coolidge
The raccoon, Rebecca, was sent from Mississippi to the White House to be served for Thanksgiving dinner in 1926, but the Coolidges instead kept her as a pet
This Native American was a friend to the settlers and acted as an interpreter between the Native Americans and English settlers.
Squanto
Macy's first Thanksgiving Day Parade was in 1924 where employees dressed as clowns, cowboys, and other fun costumes and actually travelled with these, it wasn't until 1927 that balloons were introduced.
Animals from the Central Park Zoo
In addition to being a massive shopping day, Black Friday is also the busiest day of the year for this trade occupation.
Plumbers
Green bean casserole was created by the Campbell Soup Company and became a staple in many households for Thanksgiving during this decade?
1950s
specifically 1955