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Thanksgiving Day

The document discusses the history and traditions of Thanksgiving Day in the United States and Canada. It describes how the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in 1621 after surviving a difficult first winter in North America. It also outlines some of the traditional foods and activities associated with modern Thanksgiving celebrations, such as gathering with family, giving thanks, and sharing a meal including roast turkey and pumpkin pie.

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Thanksgiving Day

The document discusses the history and traditions of Thanksgiving Day in the United States and Canada. It describes how the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in 1621 after surviving a difficult first winter in North America. It also outlines some of the traditional foods and activities associated with modern Thanksgiving celebrations, such as gathering with family, giving thanks, and sharing a meal including roast turkey and pumpkin pie.

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Thanksgiving Day

Date and place of the event


It is a holiday celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States.

George Washington suggested the date November 26 to celebrated as


Thanksgiving Day, but later, after the Civil war, Abraham Lincoln suggested the
last Thursday in November to be the day of thanksgiving.
History of the event
• In 1620, a religious Puritan community • The following spring the Indians taught them how
sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in to grow corn. Indians showed them also how to
the New World. They settled in the state of grow other crops and how to hunt and fish. In the
Massachusetts. Their first winter in America autumn of 1621 they got a beautiful harvest of
was difficult. They arrived too late to grow a corn, barley, beans and pumpkins. The colonists
rich harvest. had much to be thankful for, so they planned a
feast.
Preparations
• On Thanksgiving Day, family • Foods, eaten at the first
members gather at the house of an thanksgiving, have become
older relative, even if they live far traditional. The traditional
away. All give thanks for everything thanksgiving meal consists of roast
good they have. Charitable turkey stuffed with herb-flavoured
organizations offer traditional meal bread, cranberry jelly, mashed
to the homeless. potatoes, pumpkin pie.
Actual event
• Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada
and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving
dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members and friends.

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