3. When the Mayflower left England, where were the Pilgrims hoping to go? (Hint: name of a current state)
4. Name two things that happened on the Mayflower during the voyage.
5. Where was the first landing of the Mayflower?
6. Where did the Pilgrims establish their first colony? What did they call it?
13. Why did George Washington
set aside December 18, 1777 as a
day “for solemn Thanksgiving and
Praise”?
1. What happened to
all of the Wampanoag
villages in the Massachusetts Bay area?
1841
1621
1619
1616
15. Why did Sarah Hale begin a letter
writing campaign?
1777
1620
17. Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt
change Thanksgiving Day?
1863
1941
1939
1846
7. Where did the Pilgrims live as they were trying to build their first shelters?
8. How many Pilgrims were alive by spring?
2. When the Pilgrims
got a land patent,
what were they
hoping to do?
9. What two people walked into the Pilgrims’ camp?
10. What does Tisquantum (Squanto) teach the Pilgrims?
11. Why did the Pilgrims decide to have a feast?
12. Were the Wampanoag originally invited to the feast? Why were they
there?
14. What did historian
Alexander Young
discover?
16. Which day did
Abraham Lincoln declare as Thanksgiving
Day?
18. How did
Roosevelt finally end the
confusion
about the date
for Thanksgiving?