THE FIRST THANKSGIVING

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• The English Colonists celebrate days of Thanksgiving as part of Their religion
• The feast was a day of prayer not feasting
• The first thanksgiving was in 1621
• The woupanoags celebrated because it was their first successful harvest
• In 1621 the Mayflower went from England to Texas

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• The Pilgrims arrivedduring the winter
• The pilgrims Had very little food when they arrived
• The Native Americans helped the Pilgrims grow their crops
• Not all the Pilgrims survived during the first winter
• Of the 18 adult women, 13 died the first winter while another died in May.

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• The wampanoags helped the Pilgrim survive
• The wampanoags lived in Massachusetts
• There was other Native Americans before the wampanoags
• The wampanoags were also called the Eastern People
• There were more than one Native American Tribe

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• Massachusetts & Eastern Road Island has been home for Native Americans for over 20,000 years
• The settlers were a group of English protestanes who wanted to to brake away from the Church of England
• There was no turkey on the First Thanksgiving
• Didn't have a lot of shelter
• Natives new how to grow Crops

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• It was only in the nineteenth century that this event became identified with the American Thanksgiving holiday.
• The first national Thanksgiving was declared in 1777 by the Continental Congress
• The holiday then reverted to being a regional observance until 1863, when two national days of Thanksgiving were declared, one celebrating the victory at Gettysburg on August 6, and the other the first of our last-Thursday-in-November annual Thanksgivings
• During the second half of the nineteenth century, Thanksgiving was more commonly symbolized by its New England origins and its chief dinner constituent, the turkey, than by the Pilgrims' 1621
• The association between Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims had been suggested as early as 1841 when Alexander Young identified the 1621 harvest celebration as the "first Thanksgiving