Thanksgiving History (Grade 3)
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Thanksgiving History
Instructions:
Feasts of thanksgiving were first celebrated in the New World by the Spanish conquerors. By the 1600s, English colonists celebrated their thankfulness to God with thanksgiving feasts throughout New England.
The first time all the English colonies celebrated Thanksgiving at the same time was during the Revolutionary War. General George Washington ordered Thursday, December 18, 1777, to be a day of prayer and thanksgiving. As president, Washington later named November 26, 1789, a day of thanksgiving for victory in the war. It wasn't until many years later that President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November to be an annual "Thanksgiving" holiday in the United States.
Answer the questions below about the historical origins of Thanksgiving.
- Millard Fillmore
- Abraham Lincoln
- George Bush
- They wanted bigger houses.
- They wanted religious freedom.
- They wanted to meet Native Americans.
- the Speedwell
- the Mayflower
- the Santa Maria
- True
- False
- Kentucky
- Spain
- Holland
- 1720
- 1640
- 1620
- the Wampanoag people
- French traders
- Spanish conquistadors
- he led them to the New World.
- he taught them how to survive.
- he acted as a spy against his tribe.
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