Thanksgiving
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THANKSGIVING DAY
The pilgrims, who celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day in America were fleeing religious prosecution in their native England.
In 1609 they left England and sailed inHolland where they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but eventually this worried them to decide to seek for a better way of life in the New world.
Their trip was financed by a group of Englishinvestors and on September 6th, 1920 the Pilgrims set sail for the New World on a ship called the Mayflower.
The long trip was cold and damp and took 65 days.
The pilgrims setground at Plymouth Rock on December 11th, 1620.
Plymouth offered an excellent harbor and a large brook offered a resource for fish, the pilgrims biggest concern was to be attacked by the localNative American Indians.
The first winter was devastating to the pilgrims. The cold, snow and sleet were exceptionally heavy, interfering with the workers as they tried to constructtheir settlement.
March brought warmer weather and the health of the pilgrim improved, but many had died during the long winter.
The year 1621 was a bountiful one, because thenative Indians helped the pilgrims to survive. They taught them which plants were poisonous and which had medicinal powers. They taught them how to plant the Indian corn and other crops.The harvest in October was very successful and the pilgrims found themselves with enough food to put away for the winter. There was corn, fruits and vegetables, fish to be pack in salt and meat.The pilgrims had much to celebrate, they had built homes in the wildness, had raised enough crops to keep them alive during long coming winter, and were at peace with their Indianneighbors.
The pilgrim Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving to be shared by all colonist and the neighboring Native Americans, so they invited them to join the...
The pilgrims, who celebrated the first Thanksgiving Day in America were fleeing religious prosecution in their native England.
In 1609 they left England and sailed inHolland where they enjoyed more religious tolerance, but eventually this worried them to decide to seek for a better way of life in the New world.
Their trip was financed by a group of Englishinvestors and on September 6th, 1920 the Pilgrims set sail for the New World on a ship called the Mayflower.
The long trip was cold and damp and took 65 days.
The pilgrims setground at Plymouth Rock on December 11th, 1620.
Plymouth offered an excellent harbor and a large brook offered a resource for fish, the pilgrims biggest concern was to be attacked by the localNative American Indians.
The first winter was devastating to the pilgrims. The cold, snow and sleet were exceptionally heavy, interfering with the workers as they tried to constructtheir settlement.
March brought warmer weather and the health of the pilgrim improved, but many had died during the long winter.
The year 1621 was a bountiful one, because thenative Indians helped the pilgrims to survive. They taught them which plants were poisonous and which had medicinal powers. They taught them how to plant the Indian corn and other crops.The harvest in October was very successful and the pilgrims found themselves with enough food to put away for the winter. There was corn, fruits and vegetables, fish to be pack in salt and meat.The pilgrims had much to celebrate, they had built homes in the wildness, had raised enough crops to keep them alive during long coming winter, and were at peace with their Indianneighbors.
The pilgrim Governor William Bradford proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving to be shared by all colonist and the neighboring Native Americans, so they invited them to join the...
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