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THANKSGIVING

HISTORY AND TRADITION

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Fill in the blanks below using the word bank                                

Word Bank:     sauce, decade, Thursday ,beans ,pie, Lincoln, fish, food, Day, stuffing ,gratitude ,1621 ,north ,holiday Pilgrims, Canada, Massachusetts, tribe, scarce, family.                                                                      

On the fourth ____________________ of each November in the USA, we celebrate Thanksgiving ________________. In Canada, Thanksgiving is observed on the second Monday of October (this is because harvest time is earlier in _________________, since Canada is farther ______________ than the USA). On Thanksgiving Day, people express their ___________________________ and have a Thanksgiving feast with their ____________________________ and friends. Thanksgiving dinner often features turkey with ______________, cranberry __________________, yams, potatoes, rolls, green _______________________________, and pumpkin __________________. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the _________________________ and Native Americans in ___________________________ in colonial New England. The Pilgrims had sailed from Europe to the New World, settling in what is now the state of _____________________________. They had a difficult first year and food was ___________________________. The local Indians (the Wampanoag __________________________) helped the Pilgrims by showing them how to fertilize corn plants with a _____________________________, how to harvest local berries, and how to hunt game. At the first Thanksgiving feast the Indians brought _____________________________ for the Pilgrims. The first Thanksgiving feast featured fish, lobster, goose, deer, squash, wild turkey, corn, onions, and berries. This first feast was not repeated until over a _______________________________ later. In 1863, US President Abraham ____________________________ declared Thanksgiving Day to be a national _______________________________.                                                                                

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