History of Thanksgiving

When does Thanksgiving 2023 occur?

• November 23

• September 1620

• October 27

• November 16

Who were the participants in the first Thanksgiving feast?

• Plymouth colonists and Native American Wampanoag people

• Mayflower passengers and Abenaki tribe

• Spanish settlers and Timucuan people

• Pilgrims and Pawtuxet tribe

When was the first American Thanksgiving celebrated?

• March 1621

• September 1620

• October 1621

• November 1620

Who taught the Pilgrims how to cultivate corn and catch fish?

• Squanto

• Edward Winslow

• Massasoit

• William Bradford

Which president proclaimed a national Day of Thanksgiving in 1863?

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

• Calvin Coolidge

• Thomas Jefferson

Which state may have been the true site of the first Thanksgiving in North America?

• Connecticut

• Massachusetts

• Mississippi

• Florida

What was the reason for George Washington's first official Presidential proclamation of a national Thanksgiving holiday?

• Annual celebration on the final Thursday in November

• Arrival of Spanish settlers in St. Augustine

• End of the Revolutionary War and ratification of the Constitution

• Victory over the British in the Battle of Saratoga

What was the first Thanksgiving football game?

• Yale vs. Princeton

• NFL game

• Confederacy vs. Union

• College football championships

Which president started the tradition of pardoning a turkey?

• Calvin Coolidge

• George Washington

• John F. Kennedy

• George H.W. Bush

What was the first oversized balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

• Felix the Cat

• Mickey Mouse

• Spider-Man

• Snoopy