WorksheetsThanksgiving: Real Edition
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Worksheet time: 16mins
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The 'First Thanksgiving' was celebrated by the Pilgrims, and has been repeated every year since.
The story of the 1st Thanksgiving was made up by writers during the First World War.
It is partly true, but the Pilgrims' Thanksgiving was celebrated in the SUMMER!
This is totally TRUE!
This is NOT true. The Pilgrims' Thanksgiving was a one-time thing, and was then forgotten about for years.
How much turkey do Americans consume each Thanksgiving, these days?
The usual amount, surprisingly.
Twice as much as usual.
Ten times as much.
Twenty times as much as usual.
Is it true that tryptophan, an amino acid in turkey, causes you to feel sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner?
NOT TRUE. People feel sleepy because of other factors, like consuming a ton of carbohydrates, excitement, and alcohol.
Totally true.
Partly true. Some turkeys contain tryptophan, some do not.
True if you roast your turkey, but not if you deep fry it.
On Thanksgiving Day, Americans may consume __________ times the healthy amount of calories.
five times
twice
ten times!
Americans do consume more, but they work it all off playing checkers.
More than 1/2 of the USA's canned pumpkin comes from ______________.
Ohio
Thailand
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Who gets more than twice as many emergency calls on the day after Thanksgiving?
ex-girlfriends
copier technicians
doctors
plumbers
Is Thanksgiving (or the day before) the busiest travel day of the year?
No. Not even close. The busiest day is usually a weekend day in summer. Thanksgiving has no more travelers than Labor Day, Memorial Day, or the Fourth of July.
Yes...sort of. Sometimes Christmas Day is the busiest.
No. April 23 is always the busiest day, for reasons no one can explain.
Yes! At least five times as many Americans hit the road (or the airport) as on any other day.
Did the Pilgrims have turkey at "the First Thanksgiving"?
Yes, but it was ground up and mixed with apple juice to form a sauce, known as 'Blessed Ketchup.'
Yes! HUGE turkeys! The turkeys in the olden days were five times the size of today's tiny things.
We don't know. History tells us that they had 'fowl,' which means some kind of bird. This could have been turkey, partridge, duck, or other game birds.
No. Very few people know the truth: at the First Thanksgiving, turkeys ate the Pilgrims. We eat turkey on Thanksgiving to get REVENGE!
Which of these is a list of things we KNOW they ate at "the First Thanksgiving"?
Sturgeon (a kind of fish), pasta, beef, eagle, venison (deer meat.
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Cod, trout, wheat, lettuce, goose.
crab cakes, pizza, Hershey's kisses, Big Macs
onions, corn, spinach, arugula, lots of fish, maybe lobster.
Everything we know about "the First Thanksgiving" comes from 1 source. What was it?
a television show
a letter written by someone who was there, discovered 200 years afterwards.
a book written by the Pilgrims, called 'The Pilgrims .'
A painting created by someone who was there
True or false: "The First Thanksgiving" was celebrated the next year, the next year, and every year after that.
True
False
The Wampanoag people living near Plymouth were not actually invited to "the First Thanksgiving."
True
False
People all over the world have been celebrating harvest time ever since the Agricultural Revolution.
True
False
For a long time, people in New England celebrated Thanksgiving, but it wasn't a national holiday.
True
False
In the 1840s, a man named Josiah Atticus Rufus Poore tried to convince Congress to declare an official Day of Thanksgiving, but kept getting turned down.
False. It was a man named Michael Jackson Flannegan O'Toole.
False. It was a woman named Sarah Josephus Hale.
True
In the 1930s, during the Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made Thanksgiving Day a month EARLY, to make the Christmas shopping season longer, to help the economy.
False! He made it ONE WEEK EARLIER than usual.
False! He made it TWO WEEKs EARLIER than usual.
False! He made it THREE WEEKS EARLIER than usual.
False! This never happened.
Because of the president's change, people weren't sure when to celebrate, so for a few years, there were 2 Thanksgivings.
Ain't no way.
True
Finally, in 1941, Congress declared the fourth Thursday in November to be a national Day of Thanksgiving, and so it is until now.
True
False
