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The pilgrims sailed from England across the 

Atlantic Ocean for 66 days to get to the New 

World. 

The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, 

had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in the 

year 1621. 

The English travelers were intending to sail to what is now 

New York City, but, due to windy conditions on their journey, 

they settled in the area of Cape Cod.  

The pilgrims and Native Americans ate deer 

instead of turkey on the first Thanksgiving.

The Wampanoag chief sent some of his people to 

hunt deer as a gift for the English settlers.  

The Thanksgiving feast was a three day celebration 

between pilgrims and the Wampanoag Native 

Americans. 

At the first Thanksgiving, the Native American 

and pilgrim children played games, sang, and 

danced.

The pilgrims celebrated the English traditional 

Harvest Festival to rejoice about their successful 

crops after a rough winter calling the festival 

Thanksgiving.

The pilgrims were thankful for surviving the ice 

cold winter in the New World. 

On the long journey to the New World, 58 

out of 102 pilgrims died from diseases.   

The native people knew the land well and had fished, 

hunted, and harvested for thousands of generations.

The chief, leader, of the Wampanoag was 

Massasoit, and he made a promise to protect and 

help the pilgrims.

102 men, woman, and children sailed from Plymouth, 

England to the New World on a merchant ship called 

the Mayflower Compact.

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared 

Thanksgiving an official national holiday, celebrated 

on the fourth Thursday in November.

Many historians believe that seafood, such as 

oysters, were also eaten at the first Thanksgiving 

since the pilgrims lived right near the ocean.

The first Protestant English settlers who came to 

America were known as pilgrims, which are people who 

journey to a place for religious reasons.

At first, the pilgrims were quite afraid of the 

Native Americans because they never met any. 

The pilgrims and Native Americans celebrated 

Thanksgiving a reminder to be thankful of the bounty 

of food they grew after a hard year. 

Squanto, an English speaking Wampanoag Indian, 

taught the pilgrims how to hunt deer, grow corn, and 

use fish as fertilizer.

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