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- 2. Though we associate Thanksgiving with this food, it was NOT served at the first feast in 1621
- 4. Name of th ecompany that invented the "TV dinner after it had 2.5 tons of extra turkey meat
- 5. Some people suggest that the first Thanksgiving was actually held in this colony in 1619 at the Berkeley Plantation
- 9. Massachusetts leader who called for a day of thanks to celebrate the success of their soldiers over the Pequots
- 11. Name for the day after Thanksgiving in which retail stores often began to make a profit
- 12. President who refused to declare a day of Thanksgiving because he believed that it violate the separation of Church and state
- 13. The date for Thanksgiving is official set by this legislative body as the fourth Thursday in November
- 15. Last name of the President who made Thanksgiving an official federal holiday in 1863
- 16. Wampanoag leader who was an ally to the English settlers and helped them to survive
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- 1. Known as "king Philip" by the colonists, he was ultimately killed in a conflict with the Massachusetts colonists and his head was put in on a pike for all to see
- 3. This president called for a day of "Publick Thanksgivin" in 1789-- the first one under the new Constitution
- 6. Native American tribe that attended the first feast with Pilgrims in 1621
- 7. Known as the "Mother of Thanksgiving" she spent four decades trying to get Thanksgiving declared a national holiday and finally succeeded in 1863
- 8. English religious dissenters who established a colony at Plymouth and are often credited with having the first Thanksgiving
- 10. President who tried to move Thanksgiving to the second to last Thursday in November to make the Christmas shopping season longer
- 14. President Calvin Coolidge received one of these asw a Thanksgiving "meal" but pardoned it and kept it as a pet in the White House