Thanksgiving History Quiz

In what year did the harvest celebration now called the “first Thanksgiving” take place at Plymouth?

1. 1492
2. 1607
3. 1621
4. 1776

Which ship carried the colonists across the Atlantic to Plymouth in 1620?

1. Speedwell
2. Mayflower
3. Santa Maria
4. Endeavour

Which Native people joined the colonists' 1621 harvest celebration?

1. Cherokee
2. Lakota
3. Wampanoag
4. Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)

Who was the Wampanoag leader who came to the celebration with about 90 men?

1. Pocahontas
2. Massasoit
3. Sitting Bull
4. Sacagawea

According to Edward Winslow's letter, for how many days did the colonists host their Wampanoag guests?

1. One afternoon
2. Three days
3. Seven days
4. Two weeks

What did the Wampanoag hunters bring to the feast, according to Winslow?

1. Five deer
2. A dozen turkeys
3. Pumpkin pies
4. Cranberry sauce

Which magazine editor spent years campaigning for a national Thanksgiving and wrote to Lincoln in 1863?

1. Sarah Josepha Hale
2. Louisa May Alcott
3. Harriet Beecher Stowe
4. Emily Dickinson

Which president's 1863 proclamation started the yearly national Thanksgiving?

1. George Washington
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Thomas Jefferson
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt move Thanksgiving one week earlier in 1939?

1. To give stores a longer Christmas shopping season
2. To match Canada's Thanksgiving
3. To avoid a clash with Election Day
4. To mark the end of a war

Since 1942, which day is Thanksgiving in the United States?

1. The last Thursday of November
2. The fourth Thursday of November
3. November 26 every year
4. The second Monday of October

The colonists crossed the Atlantic in 1620 aboard the ____.

About 90 men of the ____ people joined the colonists' harvest celebration in 1621.

The Wampanoag leader who came to the celebration was called ____.

A Patuxet man named Tisquantum, better known as ____, showed the colonists how to plant corn.

According to Edward Winslow, the Wampanoag hunters brought five ____ to the feast.

Magazine editor Sarah Josepha ____ campaigned for years for a national Thanksgiving.

In 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, President Abraham ____ proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving.

Critics mocked Roosevelt's earlier 1939 date by calling it “____.”

Since a 1941 law, Thanksgiving falls on the ____ Thursday of November.

Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday of ____.