Thanksgiving
Dates
Dates
The year that the Pilgrims left Europe and traveled to the New World.
What is 1620?
The seafood dish that was present at the First Thanksgiving that is now considered a delicacy?
What is lobster?
The group of people that traveled by ship to the New World, seeking religious freedom.
What is the Mayflower?
The name given to the day after Thanksgiving.
What is Black Friday?
The season and year of the First Thanksgiving.
What is the fall of 1621?
The main meat dish that is on Thanksgiving tables today?
What is turkey?
The Native American who became friends with Europeans and taught them how to grow corn.
Who was Squanto?
The reason the Europeans came to the New World.
What is religious freedom?
The #1 sport watched during Thanksgiving weekend.
What is football?
The year that George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation.
What is 1789?
What is eel?
The woman is known as the "Mother of Thanksgiving" for starting a campaign to make it a national holiday.
Who was Sarah Josepha Hale?
The place the Pilgrims stayed when they first arrived in America.
What is the ship (Mayflower)?
The holiday with the most people traveling on roads or in the air out of the whole year.
What is Thanksgiving?
The year New York became the first state to have an official Thanksgiving holiday.
What is 1817?
A food that is now considered part of a delicious dessert, but at the First Thanksgiving would only have been a vegetable dish due to the lack of sugar available?
What is pumpkin?
Who was Abe Lincoln?
What George Washington want the people to be thankful for when he made his Thanksgiving proclamation.
What is end of the war and the new Constitution?
The most famous movie/TV show about Thanksgiving.
What is Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving?
The year Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday.
What is 1863?
What "land roaming" animal would have been on the table at the First Thanksgiving, but not on many tables today?
What is deer?
The president who moved Thanksgiving up a week during the Great Depression to help stores make more money.
The number of years it took for the "Mother of Thanksgiving" to finally get Thanksgiving to be a national holiday.
What is 36 years?
The top three things that Thanksgiving is centered on.
What is food, family, and gratitude?