Fact or Fiction: Thanksgiving

True or False:

The First Thanksgiving

Multiple Select

Review: What were the names of the two groups at the first Thanksgiving?

• The Pilgrims

• The Americans

• The Mayflower

• The Wampanoags

Multiple Choice

Review: What year was the First Thanksgiving?

• 1620

• 1621

• 1622

• 1623

Multiple Choice

Review: The Pilgrims sailed on a ship called the Mayflower to get to America.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

There were no kids at the first Thanksgiving.

• True

• False

FALSE

Of the 50 Pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving in the Fall of 1621, almost half of them were kids!

Multiple Choice

The Pilgrims invited 90 Native Americans to their feast.

• True

• False

FALSE

The Pilgrims invited the Native Americans, but they actually didn't expect 90 people to show up to their feast! However, they were happy to have them. The Indians stayed for three days. They helped provide more food by hunting.

Multiple Choice

The first Thanksgiving was a harvest festival, and wasn’t actually called Thanksgiving. It was called Harvest Home.

• True

• False

TRUE

The phrase “Thanksgiving Day” was first used officially after President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November a national holiday in 1863. 

Multiple Choice

At the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrims and Native Americans ate eels.

• True

• False

TRUE

Since they lived by the sea, there was plenty of seafood for them to eat. Lobster, bass, clams and oysters could have also been a part of their feast!

Multiple Choice

They ate pumpkin pie for dessert.

• True

• False

FALSE

There were plenty of pumpkins to go around but they did not eat pumpkin pie for dessert. They had a pudding which was made of wheat, barley, fruit and other spices.

Multiple Choice

There was no cranberry sauce at the first Thanksgiving.

• True

• False

TRUE

Although there were cranberries all over Plymouth, the Pilgrims didn’t know how to sweeten them! Later, they figured out how to make sauces and jams with cranberries.

Multiple Choice

Pilgrims wore all black.

• True

• False

FALSE

Pilgrims actually liked colors, and wore very colorful clothes.

Multiple Choice

They ate turkey on the First Thanksgiving.

• True

• False

FALSE

Although turkey is one of the most common foods at Thanksgiving today, it is believed that they did not eat turkey on the First Thanksgiving. They were not as common back then as they are today. Instead of turkey, they ate a lot of deer.

Open Ended

What is one thing you learned about the First Thanksgiving?