People
First President to declare a national day for Thanksgiving
Abraham Lincoln
Founder of the Plymouth Colony and its first governor.
William Bradford
Plymouth Rock
The name of the 2 ships the Pilgrims originally started out on?
The speed which a turkey can run?
25 MPH
Wampanoag who lived with the Pilgrims and taught them how to grow food
Squanto
Town in England where the Pilgrims originated from.
Scrooby
How many Indians attended the first Thanksgiving celebration?
About 90
The date the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock?
December 16, 1620
The first President to issue a Presidential Pardon for a turkey?
Harry S. Truman
Name of the Wampanoag chief who came to the first Thanksgiving feast
Massasoit
The military leader who helped protect the Pilgrims in Plymouth Colony
Miles Standish
How many passengers were there on the ship that brought the Pilgrims from England?
102
The President who changed Thanksgiving from the 4th Thursday to the 3rd?
Franklin Roosevelt
What is the first year of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
1924
The man who was the preacher for the Pilgrims on the Mayflower and at Plymouth.
William Brewster
The date the Pilgrims left England for the New World.
September 6, 1620
Not everyone on the ship was a Pilgrim or Seperatist. What were the other people known as?
Strangers
The name of William Bradford's book?
Of Plimouth Plantation
The first balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
Felix the Cat
The woman whose 36 year letter writing campaign led to Thanksgiving being proclaimed a holiday by Abraham Lincoln.
Sarah Josepha Hale
The name of the baby boy born on the ship the Pilgrims came to the new world on.
Oceanus Hopkins
How many of the Pilgrims were still alive after the first year in Plymouth?
52
Which war the Plymouth Rock cracked?
Revolutionary War
Jingle Bells