What is the name of the ship that the Pilgrims came to America on?
What is The Mayflower
100
How long were the Indians settled in Massachusetts before the arrival of the Pilgrims?
Approximately 10,000 years
100
What group of settlers founded Plymouth?
The Pilgrims
100
What president claimed a national day of thanksgiving, despite the country being at war?
Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863
or James Madison during the war of 1812
100
What character appeared more times than any other as a giant balloon during Macy's thanksgiving day parade?
Snoopy
200
What food, that we are used to eating on thanksgiving, might not have been a staple at the first thanksgivng?
The Turkey
200
What is the plague that killed off large proportions of the Native American population?
Small Pox
200
What document signed aboard the Mayflower formed the basis of the government for the colony?
The Mayflower Compact
200
Can Turkeys fly?
Yes, wild turkeys can fly for short distances, however the domesticated version is not able to.
200
The first Macy's thanksgiving day parade was held in what year in New York City?
1924
300
What is the name of the Abenaki Indian who first helped the settlers survive?
Sqaunto
300
Before the arrival of the Pilgrims, What European settler captured Sqaunto?
Captain John Smith
300
What country did the puritans settle in before America?
The Netherlands
300
The movement of the turkey inspired what ballroom dance?
The Turkey Trot, which became popular in the late 1800s.
300
What magazine editor and author lobbied congress for an official national holiday for thanksgiving, during the 1800s?
Sarah Josepha Hale
400
What is the year of the first thanksgiving?
1621
400
What is name of the two tribes that were not friendly with the settlers from the get go?
The Massachusetts and the Narragansetts.
400
What is the year that the Pilgrims arrived in America?
1620
400
What is the name of the founding father who suggested that America's national bird should be the Turkey?
Benjamin Franklin
400
What state became the first to declare an annual holiday of thanks?
New York
500
After the first thanksgiving, the pilgrims forged an alliance with what Indian tribe?
The Wampanoag
500
What is the name of the first Indian war in North America that, when population proportions are considers, was twice as deadly as the American Civil War and seven times as deadly as the American Revolution?
King Philip's War or Metacomet's war
500
Who was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony at the time of the first thanksgiving?
Governor William Bradford
500
Who was the first president to proclaim a national day of thanks and for what reason?
It was George Washington and it was a day of thanks for the ratification of the United States Constitution.
500
What president declared that Thanksgiving should be held on the 4th Thursday of November?