What Was the First Thanksgiving questions

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What was the language of Holland?

Dutch

Who first tried to make Thanksgiving a national holiday?

George Washington

What did Sarah Hale write?

"Mary Had a Little Lamb" and teacher; 1788 New Hampshire

What did English explorer, Captain John Smith, name northeast America?

"New England" 1614

What did Daniel Webster call the Pilgrims in his speech?

"Pilgrim Fathers"

What does Wampanoag mean?

"people of the east"

How did the Pilgrims come to America?

1620 on the Mayflower

When was the First Thanksgiving?

1621 for three days

When did William Bradford start his journal?

1630

What did King Philip do?

1675 - led attacks against England - King Philip's War

When did Abraham Lincoln declare Thanksgiving a national holiday?

1863

When was the first Thanksgiving football game?

1870s Princeton vs. Yale

When was the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

1924

When is Thanksgiving today?

4th Thursday in November

How long was the Mayflower on the ocean?

65 days

How big were the seven houses they built?

800 square feet and straw roof

Who finally agreed to make Thanksgiving a national holiday because of Sarah Hale's letters?

Abraham Lincoln

Who was the leader of the Algonquian tribe?

Chief Powhatan

Who were the Puritans?

Christians that did not want to be a part of the Church of England

What was the first English colony?

Jamestown

Who was elected governor?

John Carver

Who was England's ruler in the early 1600s?

King James I

Who was metacom?

King Philip - Wampanoag leader

Why did the Puritans meet in secret?

King could throw them in jail

What happened on November 11, 1620?

Mayflower Compact - elected leaders and obey laws of new colony

What happened March 16, 1621?

Native Americans walked onto the Plymouth Colony

When did President Lincoln declare Thanksgiving a national holiday?

Sarah Hale wrote him and suggested it might bring people together

When did the Mayflower set sail?

September 6, 1620

Who helped keep the Pilgrims from starvation?

Squanto

Who was the Native American translator?

Squanto

What did they use to make blankets?

animal feathers and furs

When did boys start working the fields with their fathers?

at age seven

What happened at the end of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1929?

balloons released and allowed to float away

What did they probably eat for dessert?

berries

What did the Puritans say was the law in religion?

bible

What was a mishoon?

boat

Why was the baby named Oceanus?

born while crossing the Atlantic

What were used as toilets?

buckets-chamber pots

What happened in 1662 to Wamsutta?

captured got sick and died

What were draughts?

checkers

What was samp?

corn mush

What was hasty pudding?

cornmeal cereal

What was scurvy?

disease caused by a lack of Vitamin C - gums bleed and teeth fall out

What was a wetu?

dome shaped home

What was the law that King James I made?

everyone must be a Christian and join the Church of England

What are two types of turkeys?

farming and wild

What was the First Thanksgiving?

feast to celebrate the Pilgrims first harvest

Why did the Pilgrims come across the Atlantic Ocean?

find religious freedom

What did Massasoit and his men contribute to the Pilgrims' celebration?

five deer

What were knickers?

game marbles

What is a pilgrim?

go on a long trip in God's name

Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt try to make Thanksgiving a week earlier in 1939?

help businesses that were struggling with the Great Depression

Where did much of what we know about the Pilgrims come from?

journal written by William Bradford

What happened to Squanto?

kidnapped by an English sea captain

What was true of the Wampanoag in the spring and summer?

lived along the coast in the homes called wetu

Who got the best food?

most important people

How did the Pilgrims get water?

no faucets; children fetch from a spring with buckets

Why were they afraid to drink the water?

often dirty

What did Squanto tell Massasoit that the Pilgrims had done?

put terrible diseases inside the barrels

How did they make toothpaste?

sage mixed with salt

Who was William Bradford?

second governor of Plymouth; over 30 years

Why were some Puritans afraid to go to America?

sink ship and stories of native attacks

What happened to the Speedwell on August 15, 1620?

start to leak

When some of the Pilgrim men went exploring, what did they do?

stole a big basket of corn (Indian) that was stored underground

Why were they not in New York as they originally thought?

storm moved them north to Cape Cod, Massachusetts

What was one big problem the Pilgrims faced upon landing at Plymouth?

they were a long way from New York where they should have landed

Why did the Pilgrims not bathe often?

thought they would get a cold

Who were the Wampanoag?

tribe in Massachusetts and Rhode Island - 12,000 years

How many outfits did they own?

two

How were Sundays different?

two services; 8-12 and 2-6pm; no work and no play

Why did the Puritans travel across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World?

wanted to worship God in their own way

What was the first thing the women did onshore?

wash clothes

Why were only men allowed to sign the contract?

women did not have the same rights

Why did they stay on the ship on Sundays?

worship

Who was the first Native American that the Pilgrims spoke to?

Samoset

What was the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Boston today

What happened in 1662 that made Wampanoag furious?

Pilgrims Captain Wamsutta who became sick and died

What was a symbol of the Pilgrims arrival in America?

Plymouth Rock

What happened in December of 1769?

Plymouth men decided to honor the Pilgrims for their hardship and suffering coming to America

Where was the First Thanksgiving?

Plymouth, Massachusetts


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