Thanksgiving Day

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  1. 6. - a vegetable that resembles a sweet potato
  2. 7. - horn of plenty
  3. 9. - an Americam president who changed the date of Thanksgiving to be one week earlier to allow more time to holiday shopping in 1939;
  4. 12. - an American president who set the last Thursday of November as "A Day of Thanksgiving and Praise" in October, 1963;
  5. 14. - a member of the Pawtuxet tribe who taught the Piligrims how to grow and harvest food;
  6. 15. - a male turkey;
  7. 17. - when you have a good feeling about something someone has done for you, you might say this to them;
  8. 19. - a process of gathering crop;
  9. 20. - an American president who was very passionate about having the turkey as the national symbol;
  10. 21. - an organized group of people in costumes which moves slowly down a street to celebrate an occasion;
  11. 23. - in 1620, Piligrims set this up at Plymouth in what is now Massachusetts;
  12. 24. - a season in which Thanksgiving occurs;
  13. 25. - having to do with a celebration or festival;
  14. 29. - an animal used as a symbol of Thanksgiving;
  15. 30. - a yellow crop that Piligrims planted in spring along with peas and barle;
  16. 31. - an ocean that the Mayflower crossed from Plymouth, England in 1620;
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  1. 1. - a state known for producing the most cranberries in the United States;
  2. 2. - a ship that carried passengers from England to America in 1620;
  3. 3. - a state that has the real Plymouth Rock at the Piligrim Memorial State Park;
  4. 4. - a baby turkey;
  5. 5. - a state that produces more turkeys than any other state;
  6. 8. - a large and elaborate meal;
  7. 10. - a kind of sport traditionally played on Thanksgiving
  8. 11. - the Mayflower took sixty-six of these to reach America
  9. 13. - a body part located on the chin of a turkey that turns bright red during courting or when upset;
  10. 16. - a female turkey;
  11. 18. - this crop is often thought of as a vegetable but is considered a fruit because it contains seeds of the plant;
  12. 20. - a utensil not used at the first Thanksgiving as it had yet to be invented;
  13. 22. - the Mayflower spotted land at __________Cod;
  14. 23. - a nest of turkey eggs;
  15. 25. - a group of turkeys;
  16. 26. - people who travelled to a new land and are commonly known as early settlers of the Plymouth Colony
  17. 27. - a synonym for settlers;
  18. 28. - a person or thing that is grown and produced in a particular place;