Thanksgiving Food
History of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Traditions
The First Thanksgiving
Vocabulary
100
The main dish of a Thanksgiving meal.
What is Turkey?
100
Thanksgiving was originally shared between these two groups of people.
What are American settlers and Native American Indians?
100
The reason Thanksgiving is celebrated.
What is being thankful for what you have?
100
The year of the first Thanksgiving feast.
What is 1621?
100
The sound a turkey makes.
What is the gobble?
200
The equivalent of "purê" in the United States.
What are mashed potatoes and gravy?
200
The group of Europeans who fled to "The New World" (landed in the United States) for religious freedom.
Who are the pilgrims?
200
The sport that is always played and watched by many families on Thanksgiving day.
What is football?
200

Name of the ship that brought the pilgrims to the United States.

What is the Mayflower?

200
Another word for "cutting" the turkey.
What is to carve?
300

A common vegetable eaten for Thanksgiving.

What is corn?

300

The year pilgrims started their journey.

What is 1620?

300
The busiest day to travel in the U.S.
What is Thanksgiving Day?
300
The number of days the first Thanksgiving lasted.
What is three days?
300

A Thanksgiving food that is prepared by stuffing bread, vegetables and spices inside the turkey before baking it.

What is stuffing?

400
The most common dessert served at Thanksgiving dinner.
What is pumpkin pie?
400
The location where Europeans first landed in The United States.
What is Plymouth Rock?
400

An activity that many families will participate in on Thanksgiving day (not to do with eating).

What is volunteering?

400

A sweet substance that the Native Americans taught pilgrims to collect.

What is maple sap?

400
A type of bone that represents good luck.
What is a wishbone?
500
A food made from a tart fruit.
What is cranberry sauce?
500
Thanksgiving falls on this day every year.
What is the fourth Thursday of November?
500

The city where the largest Thanksgiving parade takes place.

What is New York?

500
The Native Americans brought this animal as meat.
What are five deer?
500
The slang term for the ball used in American football.

What is pigskin?

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