What Was the First Thanksgiving questions
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
