Thanksgiving Trivia!

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  1. 2. Food-preservation practice crucial for Pilgrim survival
  2. 7. Native interpreter who helped the Pilgrims
  3. 10. Pilgrim governor who described the 1621 celebration
  4. 11. Term for the Pilgrims’ 1620 governance agreement
  5. 12. Female writer who campaigned for a national Thanksgiving holiday
  6. 14. Region whose states first adopted regular annual Thanksgivings
  7. 16. Ship that carried the Pilgrims in 1620
  8. 18. Wampanoag chief during the 1621 feast
  9. 19. Holiday movement emphasizing gratitude and national unity
  10. 20. Term for the Pilgrims’ religious identity
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  1. 1. Type of celebration the Pilgrims held during hardship—a day of fasting
  2. 3. Grain central to Wampanoag agriculture
  3. 4. Governor who proclaimed the first official New England Thanksgiving in 1637
  4. 5. Traditional bird often linked—wrongly—to the first feast
  5. 6. Staple autumn crop central to colonial and Indigenous diets
  6. 8. Month in which the 1621 harvest feast was most likely held
  7. 9. Tribe that celebrated the 1621 harvest feast with the Pilgrims
  8. 13. President who made Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863
  9. 15. Colony where the 1621 feast occurred
  10. 17. 1939–1941 debate over whether Thanksgiving should be moved earlier for shopping