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Turkey Day, but Make It 1621
It's Giving Traditional Thanksgiving Vibes
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This group of English settlers sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and later held the first thanksgiving-style feast.
Who were the Pilgrims?
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The Pilgrims attempted to grow this English grain which did not thrive well in New England soil.
What is wheat?
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This object, associated with Thanksgiving, is a horn-shaped basket typically overflowing with fruit and harvest items.
What is a cornucopia?
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The Pilgrims actually called themselves by this New Orleans team.
What is Saints?
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Many families celebrate by volunteering or donating meals, reflecting this civic value.
What is community service (or charity)?
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The Pilgrims first explored Cape Cod, a nearby bay area of present-day Massachusetts, before settling where?
What is Plymouth?
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The Wampanoag helped the Pilgrims by using this stinky seaside method of fertilizing corn.
(What did they use as fertilizer?)
What is fish?
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This U.S. President declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863 during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
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The first Thanksgiving feast lasted this many days.
What is three days?
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This annual parade in New York City began in 1924 and is still a Thanksgiving staple.
What is the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
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The Pilgrims signed this agreement aboard the Mayflower to establish basic self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
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The Pilgrims traded these metal and wood items with Native Americans in exchange for food and furs in their early economy.
What are tools or weapons?
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This President moved Thanksgiving up a week to boost holiday shopping during the Great Depression.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
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This gamey meat was likely served at the first Thanksgiving Feast rather than turkey.
What is venison (deer meat)?
300
What is the name of the event where people run in the morning before the big meal?
What is a Turkey Trot?
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During the first winter, the Pilgrims lost about half of their group due these two things.
What are illness and lack of food?
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The harvest of 1621 included this key crop domesticated by Native Americans and used by the Pilgrims.
What is maize? (Corn)
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This contemporary U.S. President began the tradition of pardoning a turkey each year.
Who was George H. W. Bush?
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This modern state, whose state donut is the Boston Creme donut, was once home to the Wampanoag tribe.
What is Massachusetts?
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This food, now a Thanksgiving staple, wasn’t at the feast due to lack of sugar.
What is pumpkin pie?
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This Native American from the Wampanoag people taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn and fish, helping them survive.
Who is Squanto?
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Over time, the Plymouth Colony’s economy included this trade involving animal pelts exported to England.
What is the fur trade?
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This woman basically bullied presidents into making Thanksgiving a national holiday and the writer of Mary Had a Little Lamb. _____ Josepha Hale
Who was Sarah Josepha Hale?
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One major Thanksgiving myth is that the feast marked the “start of peace.” What reality followed?
What is years of tension and conflict between settlers and Native nations?
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This king of the NFL jungle has won the most Thanksgiving Day football games in history.
What is the Detroit Lions?