1st Thanksgiving
children
food
1st settlers
Wamponoag tribe
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how long was the first thanksgiving?
3 days
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true or false pilgrim children went to school to learn like children do today
false they were taught to read and write at home
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what meat was eaten at the first thanksgiving?
deer, elk, fish
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What were the first settlers called?
pilgrims
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what did the wamponoag people help the settlers do?
plant crops, hunt game
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What year was the first thanksgiving?
1621
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What where 3 chores that pilgrim children did
milked cows, churned butter, gather eggs, work in fields, sew, make dinner,
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true or false Sugar was easily available to the pilgrims
false
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Why did the first settlers come to America?
to seperate from Church of England
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what does the name wampnoag mean?
eastern people
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who was at the first thanksgiving?
Pilgrims, first settlers, wamponoag tribe members
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What games did pilgrims play?
marbles, naughts and crosses (tick tack toe), draughts (checkers), all hid (hide and seek), hop frog (leap frog)
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What vegetables where grown and eaten at the time?
corn, pumpkin, squash, onions
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Who was Maryland named after?
The Queen of England
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about how many wamponoag people lived in america before settlers arrived in the early 1600?
12,000
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how many people where at the first thanksgiving? how many pilgrims? how many from the wamponoag tribe?
142 people. 52 pilgrims 90 wamponoag
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what did wamponoag children do for fun?
swim, toss and catch games, warrior, house
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What did they use to sweeten foods?
maple syrup, applesauce, other sweet fruits
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What was the first colony to be established in America?
jamestown
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what are wamponoag leaders called?
sachems
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what president declared thanksgiving a national holiday on the 4th Thursday in November?
President Abraham Lincoln in 1863
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what did pilgrim children and wamponoag children have in common?
both helped families survive, helped with house work, getting food together.
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what did they make out of corn?
cornmeal, johnnycakes (corn pancakes) oatmeal, mush, stews, soups
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name the first 13 colonies
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia
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The wamponoag people where migrating people, why did they migrate, and when?
with the seasons, during good weather they lived by the shore to grow foods and fish, then during harsh weather moved inland with smaller family groups
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