What Was the First Thanksgiving

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

• They wanted to worship God in their own way.

• They heard other Puritans were living there.

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

• After the long voyage, the "Mayflower" was too damaged to sail again.

• Approximately 1,000 hostile natives tried to turn them around.

• They were a long way from New York, where they should have landed.

• The harbor was partly frozen, making it difficult to row ashore.

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

• They set fire to several acres of woods, where they hoped to plant crops.

• They stole a big basket of Indian corn that was stored underground.

• They encountered a group of Native American children and offered them candy.

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Much of what we know about the Pilgrims came from....

• Squanto's book, that was published in England.

• A diary that was kept by Sarah Hale's grandmother.

• A journal written by William Bradford.

• Letters Miles Standish wrote to his father

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Squanto told Massasoit that the Pilgrims had....

• Put terrible diseases inside barrels.

• Offended the spirits of his ancestors.

• Arrived from a world beyond the sun.

• Learned the language of wild creatures.

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

• They slept in teepees as they hunted buffalo herds.

• They traveled in hundreds of mishoons to trade with distant tribes.

• They moved their families to highlands to raise goats and horses.

• They lived along the coasts in homes called wetu.

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

• Five deer

• Cornmeal

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In 1662 what happened that made the Wampanoag furious?

• A Pilgrim settlement was built on top of a Wampanoag burial site.

• A cow wandered from a colony and ruined the garden of Metacom's wife.

• The daughter of a Wampanoag chief secretly married a Pilgrim man.

• The Pilgrims captured Wamsutta who became sick and died.

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President Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday after...

• Sarah Hale wrote him and suggested it might bring people together.

• Miles Standish's diary was discovered in a bookstore in Boston

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What happened at the end of the Macy's parade in 1929?

• The balloons were released and allowed to float away

• President Hoover gave a speech from the last float.

• A mob rushed Santa's sleigh, forcing him to flee.

• Wampanoag descendants performed a harvest dance.