Food
History
Facts
Vocabulary
The Mayflower
100
What is the turkey.
What is that name of the bird that many people eat on Thanksgiving?
100
What is special about a Thursday in November.
What is the day that Thanksgiving is always on?
100
Who is the President of the United States. (What special thing does the president do before every Thanksgiving?)
What important person pardons a turkey before every Thanksgiving?
100
This important ship is a sailboat.
What kind of boat was the Mayflower?
100
Who are the Pilgrims.
What did we name the people who traveled on the Mayflower and settled in current day New England?
200
What are potatos, fish, corn, venison, meat pies (they did not have turkey at this Thanksgiving)
What were some of the foods eaten at the First Thanksgiving?
200
What do we call the harvest celebration that the Native Americans and Pilgrims held.
What is Thanksgiving?
200
What is the second Monday in October. (Think about what other nations celebrate Thanksgiving, one of them is very close to us.)
This day is Canadian Thanksgiving?
200
What is a foul. (A turkey is one of these animals.)
A bird, like the turkey.
200
What is the Mayflower. (What type of ship was it? Was it designed to carry people or cargo?)
What important ship was a cargo ship before it was used in this historic journey?
300
Who cooked over a fire, or in large kettles over a fire. (Who would have cooked the feast this way?)
How did the Pilgrims and Native Americans cook their Thanksgiving feast?
300
What is always the fourth Thursday of this month.
What is the date of Thanksgiving?
300
What is 65 days. (Think about the Pilgrims)
How many days did it take the Pilgrims to sail from England to the New World?
300
An area we now call Massachusetts. (This is the location of the event.)
Where did the First Thanksgiving take place?
300
What are: hold, rigging, sails, deck, mast, steerage, bow, stearn.
What are parts of a ship?
400
What is another name for corn.
What is mais?
400
Religious differences caused this group of people to move to the New World. (They were being picked on in Europe because of their religion.)
Who are the Pilgrims?
400
Who is Abraham Lincon. (What did he do that related to Thanksgiving?)
What is the name of the President who made Thanksgiving an annual national holiday?
400
What is a feast.
What is a word meaning a big meal?
400
What is the Atlantic Ocean. (Think of this with the category title in mind!)
What ocean did the Mayflower travel across to get to the New World?
500
What are geese and ducks. (Birds that were eaten at the ______________.)
What were birds eaten at the First Thanksgiving?
500
Who provided the Pilgrims with food and helped them build shelter and plant crops. (be specific to get all of the points)
Who are the Wampanoag (Native Americans)?
500
What is 1621. (This is the year that something important happened.)
What was the year of the First Thanksgiving?
500
What is hard or tough. (Which word that begins with a "d" means the same thing as hard or tough?)
What does difficult mean?
500
What is 100ft. (Think of the category title.)
What is the lenght of the Mayflower in feet?
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