The True Story of Thanksgiving

When is Thanksgiving celebrated in the United States?

• The Fourth Tuesday of November

• the Fourth Thursday of November

• 30th of November

• 1st of December

Where did the Pilgrims land?

• Wampanoag

• New York

• The Plymouth Rock

• Washington D.C.

How long had Native American people's been living on the American continents when the Pilgrims came?

• 12,000 years

• 120 years

• 120,000 years

• 1200 years

What was the Puritan's ship called?

• Wallflower?

• Springflower?

• Frostflower?

• Mayflower?

The Native population before contact with Europeans is estimated at

• 6000 people

• 60 million people

• 6 million people

• 16 million people

The period before the arrival of the Pilgrims was called "the Great Dying" because many Native Americans died from...

• new diseases

• hunger and slavery

• wars

• diseases, hunger, slavery and wars

Approximately .....% of the indigenous population lost their lives during the Great Dying.

• 90%

• 85%

• 80%

• 75%

A Wampanoag tribe helped the English survive the first winter. What was the name of their chieftain according to the text on Skolen min?

• Kocoum

• Powhatan

• Ousamequin

• Pocahontas

Were the Wampanoag invited to celebrate the Pilgrim's good harvest?

• yes

• no

• some were, some were not

Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday during a a war, which one?

• World War I

• the Civil War

• the Revolutionary War

• The Spanish-American War