Pilgrims & Plymouth
Were the Pilgrims American?
(Answer: No, they were English settlers.)
What Native American tribe helped the Pilgrims?
(Answer: The Wampanoag.)
When was Jamestown established?
(Answer: 1607.)
True or False: The Pilgrims ate turkey at the first Thanksgiving.
(Answer: False, they likely ate deer and other wild game.)
True or False: Pilgrims wore black outfits with buckled hats
(Answer: False, they wore colorful clothing and no buckles.)
What year did the Pilgrims land at Plymouth?
(Answer: 1620.)
Who was Squanto, and why was he important?
(Answer: A Native American who helped the Pilgrims with farming and negotiating peace.)
What was Jamestown’s primary cash crop?
(Answer: Tobacco.)
When did Thanksgiving become a national holiday?
(Answer: 1863, during Abraham Lincoln’s presidency.)
Was the first Thanksgiving meal indoors or outdoors?
(Answer: Outdoors.)
What was the name of the Pilgrims' ship?
(Answer: The Mayflower.)
How long did the peace between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag last?
(Answer: About 50 years.)
What was one major reason Jamestown failed initially?
(Answer: Lack of food and poor relations with Native Americans.)
Who is credited with starting the tradition of Thanksgiving as a holiday?
(Answer: Sarah Josepha Hale.)
Did the Pilgrims call themselves Pilgrims?
(Answer: No, they referred to themselves as Separatists or Saints.)
True or False: The Pilgrims intended to land in Massachusetts.
(Answer: False, they were aiming for Virginia.)
True or False: The first Thanksgiving was only attended by the Pilgrims.
(Answer: False, the Wampanoag also attended.)
True or False: Jamestown settlers also celebrated Thanksgiving.
(Answer: True, but it was different from the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving.)
What is the origin of the tradition of eating cranberries at Thanksgiving?
(Answer: Native Americans introduced cranberries to settlers as a food source.)
True or False: Thanksgiving was celebrated every year after 1621.
(Answer: False, it was sporadic until it became a national holiday.)
Why did the Pilgrims leave England in the first place?
(Answer: Religious freedom.)
Why was the Wampanoag tribe willing to help the Pilgrims?
What was the "Starving Time" in Jamestown?
(Answer: The winter of 1609-1610 when many settlers died from lack of food.)
Why do we watch football on Thanksgiving?
(Answer: It became popular in the 1920s when professional leagues held games on Thanksgiving.)
Was Thanksgiving always celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November?
(Answer: No, it was formalized in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt.)