Thanksgiving: A brief history

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Across
  1. 2. Turkeys are named because of
  2. 6. This rival group of the Pilgrims helped found a famous Ivy League school
  3. 8. This company invented TV Dinners because of leftovers
  4. 13. One of 2 states without wild turkeys
  5. 14. One of the ships the pilgrims arrived on
  6. 16. The original month of Thanksgiving
  7. 19. Break this for luck
  8. 24. Campbell's Soup Company invented this Thanksgiving staple
  9. 26. Plymouth Colony State
  10. 27. Amature Football game
  11. 29. ____ places in the USA are called Turkey
  12. 30. Began the official Turkey Pardoning Ceremony
  13. 32. This Moonwalker was one of the first people to have Thanksgiving in Space
  14. 33. The day after Thanksgiving
  15. 34. The actual name for a Pilgrim topper
  16. 36. The other North American Thanksgiving
Down
  1. 1. He was the other one (the inspiration for a Toy Story character)
  2. 3. The unofficial start of the ________
  3. 4. Thanksgiving Day
  4. 5. Host of the annual parade in NYC
  5. 7. Made Thanksgiving an official holiday
  6. 9. The tribe who met the Pilgrims
  7. 10. Pilgrims and Puritans belong to this anti-Anglican group
  8. 11. Writer of Mary had a Little Lamb was a primary lobbyist for the national holiday
  9. 12. This time period is why FDR chose the 4th Thursday of November
  10. 15. One of this character's famous holiday specials
  11. 17. Like Black Friday but for Charity
  12. 18. Always play Football on Thanksgiving Day
  13. 20. This disease from the Colonists led to the death/genocide of the Native Peoples
  14. 21. Only these types of turkeys gobble
  15. 22. A delicacy involving a Gobbler and a Daffy
  16. 23. Famous Squash
  17. 25. Where pilgrims left from
  18. 28. The Thanksgiving Helpline
  19. 31. How long the "original" celebration lasted (We think)
  20. 34. A New World crop that would later be one of the most important crops in history
  21. 35. Benjamin Franklin wanted this as a national symbol