The First Thanksgiving
While this type of dish is a staple of modern Thanksgiving meals, it was not offered at the original feast due to a lack of key ingredients and ovens.
What are pies, cakes, or desserts?
In 1789, this man issued a proclamation that Americans should have a feast of Thanksgiving to celebrate winning their independence from England and ratifying the U.S. Constitution.
Who is George Washington?
While there’s no way to know whether this item was offered at the original Thanksgiving feast, nearly 90% of Americans now have it for Thanksgiving.
What is turkey?
In 1565, Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilé invited members of the local Timucua tribe to feast with him and his crew in St. Augustine, a major city of this state.
What is Florida?
These dwellers in North America celebrated fall harvests with feasts long before Europeans ever set foot there.
What are Native Americans?
This is the name of both the English town where the Pilgrims set sail and the town they established once they landed ashore in Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth?
In 1817, this state became the first state to officially establish an annual Thanksgiving celebration.
What is New York?
Held in this city, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade has been a Thanksgiving Day tradition for nearly a century.
What is New York City?
On December 4, 1619, 38 British soldiers reached their destination on the banks of James River in this state and proclaimed it “a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God.”
What is Virginia?
These ancient European and African civilizations also paid tribute to their gods after the fall harvest season with festivals. (Name as many of the 3 as you can.)
Who are the Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians?
An escaped slave, this Native American was a member of the Pawtuxet tribe and helped teach the European settlers how to survive.
Who is Squanto?
In 1863, this man finally established Thanksgiving as an official national holiday and urged Americans to celebrate it as a way of mourning those who suffered losses as a result of the ongoing Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Every year, the U.S. President does this to one or two turkeys, sparing them from being killed for Thanksgiving dinner and sending them to a farm to live out their lives.
What is pardon?
Many people, including many Native Americans, take issue with how the Thanksgiving story is taught in schools, for this reason.
What is... It’s too sunny; it overlooks the long, violent, and bloody history between Native Americans and Europeans?
The religious separatists who came to North America on this boat brought with them religious traditions of fasting and feasting.
What is the Mayflower?
Organized by Governor William Bradford, the first Thanksgiving feast took place in November of this year and lasted for three days.
What is 1621?
In 1827, writer, editor, and abolitionist Sarah Josepha Hale started a 36-year campaign to establish Thanksgiving as an official national holiday. Her work earned her this nickname.
What is "the Mother of Thanksgiving"?
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What is 400?
Since 1970, there have been protests on Thanksgiving Day at Cole’s Hill, which overlooks this famous landmark, near where the Pilgrims first landed ashore.
What is Plymouth Rock?
This word, which can be either a verb or a noun, is an agricultural term meaning “gathering crops,” and is the basis of many fall festivals throughout the world and throughout history.
What is harvest?
The European settlers forged a crucial alliance with this Native American tribe, local to the Massachusetts area, and even invited some of its members to the first Thanksgiving feast.
What is Wampanoag?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the unpopular decision to move Thanksgiving one week earlier in order to increase people’s spending at stores, in an attempt to counteract the effects of this national crisis. (He later moved it back to its original date.)
What is the Great Depression?
These days most people give thanks for family, health, or other aspects of their lives. However, because Thanksgiving was started by Puritans, the original target of gratitude was this.
Who/what is God?
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What is Columbus Day?
Modern Thanksgiving has a lot in common with the ancient harvest festival Sukkot, historically celebrated by members of this religious culture.
What is Jewish/Judaism?