Thanksgiving History
When is Thanksgiving every year?
Fourth Thursday of November
This starch gets its name from the Taino word batata
Potato
Many indigenous peoples and historians have criticized the myth of the first thanksgiving. Explain why.
Erases the violent displacement of Indigenous peoples
After declaring himself Emperor of France, he conquered most of mainland Europe.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A period of transition between small-scale/hand-based production to machine-based mass production
Industrial Revolution
Since 1924, this department store has hosted a Thanksgiving Day Parade
Macy's
This bird is named for the fact that it was first imported to Europe through a Middle Eastern country.
Turkey
Which indigenous nation participated in the "first thanksgiving"?
Wampanoag
This influential thinker wrote books like Capital and The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
A wave of wars for independence from Spain
The Latin American revolutions
According to the myth, Thanksgiving commemorates a meal between who?
Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people.
This sour ingredient comes from the Middle Low German word kraanbere.
Cranberry
Which indigenous group were the first to interact with Europeans in the 1490s?
Taino
This man is considered the "father of Latin American independence"
Simon Bolivar
A period in which Europeans began questioning traditional systems of authority.
The Enlightenment
Which president officially declared the modern Thanksgiving* as a federal holiday?
Abraham Lincoln
Some claim that this pie ingredient comes from the Greek word πέπων (pepōn).
Pumpkin
The Mashpee Wampanoag Museum is located in which Northeastern US state?
Massachusetts
This empress is considered a prime example of an "Enlightened Absolutist/Despot"
Catherine the Great
Led by Wilhelm I and Otto von Bismarck, this nationalist movement significantly reshaped the borders of Europe
German Unification
What year was Thanksgiving officially declared a national holiday?
1863
This word for a centerpiece displaying the season's produce comes from the Greek phrase for "Horn of Abundance"
Cornucopia
Which indigenous nation lived in what is now Northern NJ, NYC, and parts of Long Island?
Lenape
Bonus: Where are most Lenape people now?
She penned "The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen"
Olympe de Gouge
A period of the French Revolution based on absolute equality and rejection of all things associated with the monarchy.
The Radical Phase
From 1939 to 1941, Franklin D Roosevelt tried to switch the date of Thanksgiving to the "next-to-last Thursday in the month instead of the last one."
Opponents of the switch mocked the new holiday placement by referring to it as...
"Franksgiving"
This umbrella term for dishes baked in a deep dish, ranging from vegetable, meat, and pasta varieties, comes from the french term for "sauce pan."
Casserole
This movement, sometimes called "Rematriation," seeks to return indigenous sovereignty over lands stolen from them by colonizers.
Land Back
This man, born a slave, became one of the most prominent leaders of the Haitian Revolution.
Toussaint Louverture
The birth of capitalism, when openly accessible land was privatized
Enclosure of the Commons