Introduction
Thanksgiving is known as this in the US and Canada
What is Thanksgiving Day is an annual legal holiday?
Thanksgiving was originally a ......
What is a harvest festival?
Who believed Thanksgiving should be a national, patriotic holiday? What was her occupation?
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale? What is she was the "editor of a popular woman’s magazine called Godey’s Lady’s Book?"
Common Thanksgiving traditions today...
What are "eating a turkey feast with family and friends and watching football games and parades?"
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What are the earliest days of giving thanks?
The name of the ship that the Pilgrims arrived on and where.
What is the Mayflower on December 21, 1620?
The day Thanksgiving is celebrated in the US and Canada
What is Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday in November in the United States and on the 2nd Monday in October in Canada?
The harvest that Thanksgiving honors.... ( also mention who was there)
What is the harvest celebration held in 1621. "It included a feast shared by the Pilgrims, English settlers who established Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts, and the Wampanoag, an American Indian tribe?"
The president who gave Hale his support in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What Thanksgiving now symbolizes
What is "intercultural peace, America’s opportunity for newcomers, and the importance of home and family?"
The early days of thanksgiving celebrated.....
What are military victories or the birth of royal children?
The reason why only about 1/2 of the original group of Pilgrims survived...
What is "they suffered starvation and disease?"
Countries where Thanksgiving is also celebrated.
What are Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines?
The foods that were eaten during the harvest.....
What "fowl, venison, fish, and corn, the feast probably included eels, shellfish, stews, and vegetables?"
What is he "thought Thanksgiving fell too close to Christmas. In 1939 he proclaimed the third Thursday to be Thanksgiving Day?"
Holds a National Day of Mourning on Thanksgiving Day in Plymouth
What is the "United American Indians of New England?"
The date a A national Thanksgiving Day was declared in Canada
What is 1879?
Where harvests were later celebrated...
What is "Thanksgiving days following harvests later came to be celebrated throughout the New England colonies?"
Countries where Thanksgiving is also celebrated.
Laos, Liberia, and Puerto Rico?
The actual known date of the feast
What is the actual date is knot known, but it must have taken place before Dec. 11th?
The reason Thanksgiving takes place on the 4th Thursday of the month...
What is Sara selected that day "because on the last Thursday of that month in 1789 (November 26) George Washington had proclaimed a National Thanksgiving Day in honor of the new United States Constitution?"
The reason why Thanksgiving is not a day of celebration for Native Americans
What is "the arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought death and devastation to the Indians. The early peace established between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims did not last, and most of the Wampanoag were killed in King Philip’s War in 1675–76?"
"Thanksgiving Day has been celebrated in Canada on the second Monday in October."
What is 1623?
Countries where Thanksgiving is celebrated.
What are Guam, Grenada, and the Virgin Islands?
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What is " a joint resolution of Congress in 1941?"
Were "forced from their land by white settlers and the U.S. government."
Who were the Northeast Indians?
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