SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FIRST THANKSGIVING HISTORY FACTS FOODS
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Pilgrims, Wampanoag
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Pilgrims, Spanish
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -To celebrate the first harvest at Plymouth, Governor William Bradford and the other settlers invited the Wampanoags for a celebratory feast in November 1621, now remembered as the first Thanksgiving.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Wampanoag went on to teach their visitors how to hunt, plant crops and how to get the best of their harvest, saving these people, who would go on to be known as the Pilgrims, from starvation, leading to the events of the first Thanksgiving.
Detailed explanation-4: -Told it was a harvest celebration, the Wampanoags joined, bringing five deer to share, she said. There was fowl, fish, eel, shellfish and possibly cranberries from the area’s natural bogs. In his book, “This Land Is Their Land, ” author David J.
Detailed explanation-5: -The first direct contact with a Native American was made in March 1621, and soon after, Chief Massasoit paid a visit to the settlement.