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turkey pumpkin pie family football and parades
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where did these traditions come from and how did they become a part of a national
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we call Thanksgiving to understand the origins at this holiday
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we must take a look back at the origins of our country itself
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particularly at the Plymouth Colony and it's crucial first year
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in the fall of 1620 the cargo ship mayflower transported a group of 100
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to englishmen women and children to the new world
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a portion of this group or separatists people who had religiously separated
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themselves from the church in England
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and wanted to come to the new world to find religious freedom
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in time these people would come to be known as the pilgrims
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the mayflower arrived at the New World in December 16 20
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weeks later than they had originally hoped and lending much farther north
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than they had planned
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putting them in present-day Massachusetts these unfortunate
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circumstances made for a particularly harsh
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winter nearly half the colonists died and those who did not fail
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as the spring at 16:21 approached
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the lack of Plymouth Colony began to change the colony was visited by several
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or want to know it people one of these visitors
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with his quantum otherwise known as Squanto
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Squanto spoke English and showed the pilgrims how to use fish as fertilizer
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to grow crops on sandy land
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he was there interpreter he even chose to live among the colonists a Plymouth
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by November's 1621 things were looking up for the pilgrims
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they had survived their first year in the new world
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and had a successful in apartments to continue living there
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the pilgrims collected their harvest which could have included
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corn pumpkins squash in some grain
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they cut fish and gather together wildfowl or birds
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such as Dax peace and even wild turkeys to feast on in celebration
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the mighty king at the one the node people masses site
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joined the pilgrims with 90% of his men
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he also donated five deer to this great feast which lasted
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for three whole days to the pilgrims
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this celebration was not the start of a new holiday
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it was a common harvest festival much like the ones held in Europe
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every fall after a good harvest on December 18
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1777 Washington held a national day of Thanksgiving to commemorate
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the defeated the British Army in Saratoga through the remainder of the
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Revolutionary War Washington proclaims several national days of Thanksgiving to
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commemorate special days
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by the end of the war individual states particularly in the North had gotten
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used to having a yearly Thanksgiving Day
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though there was no official national holiday and
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the dative the feast would vary from state to state Thanksgiving as we know
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was made possible largely by the efforts have a nineteenth-century brighter
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named Sarah Josepha Hale she was america's first female magazine editor
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and author of the famous nursery rhyme mary had a little lamb
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during the Civil War hale was convinced
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that a national Thanksgiving Day would awake in an american hearts
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the love home and country of thankfulness to God
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and peace between brother and she wrote letters to Governors
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and even to President Abraham Lincoln a few days after receiving her letter
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on October 3rd 1863 President Lincoln
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issued a proclamation declaring the last Thursday up November
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to be Thanksgiving Day year after year americans continue to celebrate this day
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of feasting and thanks even though Congress had not yet ratified it as an
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over the years the date seems to coincide with the beginning of the
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Christmas shopping season
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in 1924 Macy's department store started their Thanksgiving Day Parade
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which route heads down the streets of New York and ends
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at the store also in the nineteen twenties the Detroit Lions came up with
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the idea over Thanksgiving Day football game
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in order to boost dwindling attendance it was not until 1941 the congress
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Thanksgiving Day a legal holiday when they did they moved the holiday up
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one week so the official day of Thanksgiving would be the fourth
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Thursday in November this was done in an attempt to extend
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the Christmas shopping season today more than
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anything else Thanksgiving is about family
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though the way we serve our turkey and our pumpkin may have changed
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and our entertainment varied over the years from
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archery and displays of arms to football and parades
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thanksgiving has become a welcomed a everest
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to spend with loved ones in recognition and appreciation
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for all the blessings for which we are thankful
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