Thanksgiving Listening Assignment
- Due No Due Date
- Points 12
- Submitting a text entry box
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TASK
Directions:
After listening to the video, answer the questions in the text box. You may write short answers.
- How many colonists (Pilgrims) died? How many fell ill?
- What did the Wampanoag teach the Pilgrims?
- How many days did the feast last?
- What kinds of food did they eat at this first Thanksgiving?
- Why did the Pilgrims not consider the first Thanksgiving the beginning of a new holiday?
- When did the Continental Congress hold a national day of Thanksgiving? Why?
- Why was Sarah Josepha Hale important in the history of Thanksgiving? What was her profession?
- Who declared the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day?
- Why is football associated with Thanksgiving?
- What did Macy’s do in 1924?