by: Keiara Keene
The first American Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, to celebrate the feast that was taken away by the Plymouth Colony after a harsh winter. In that year Governor William Bradford said that there will be a day of thanksgiving. The colonists celebrated it as a traditional English harvest feast, to which they invited the local Wampanoag Indians.
v Did you know that the Pilgrims trip to the New World aboard the Mayflower lasted 65 days?
v Did you know that half of the 110 Pilgrims who had left England in 1620 survived that first year in the New World?
v Did you know that the first Thanksgiving took place in December 1621?
v Did you know that Thanksgiving didn't become an official national holiday until more than 200 years later, when in 1863 President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday of November a national day of thanksgiving?
v Did you know that as many 107 million American homes will celebrate Thanksgiving this year?
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