SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FIRST THANKSGIVING HISTORY FACTS FOODS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the First Thanksgiving
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Christmas
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Harvest festival observed by the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
Detailed explanation-2: -As was the custom in England, the Pilgrims celebrated their harvest with a festival. The 50 remaining colonists and roughly 90 Wampanoag tribesmen attended the “First Thanksgiving."
Detailed explanation-3: -There are only two surviving documents that reference the original Thanksgiving harvest meal. They describe a feast of freshly killed deer, assorted wildfowl, a bounty of cod and bass, and flint, a native variety of corn harvested by the Native Americans, which was eaten as corn bread and porridge.
Detailed explanation-4: -Two prominent figures in the Plymouth Colony described it as a three-day feast and celebration of the harvest, attended by the colonists and a group of Wampanoag Native Americans and their leader Massasoit.