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Canadian thanksgiving shares many aspects of american thanksgiving right down to the turkey.

Thanksgiving history pdf. The first feast was also about giving thanks. If you are a farmer you generally have a farm where you grow plants. Thanksgiving day annual national holiday in the united states and canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year.

However their first true thanksgiving was in 1623 when they gave thanks for rain that ended a drought. Many native americans died from diseases that the european colonists brought to america. The name of the native american tribe that attended the first thanksgiving was the wampanoag tribe.

Americans generally believe that their thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the european colonists pilgrims of plymouth and the wampanoag people. Create a bingo board that features 24 thanksgiving words with the middle space free. Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the united states celebrated on the fourth thursday of november.

Canadian thanksgiving can trace its beginning back to either 1578 and martin frobisher who gave thanks to god for surviving the trip from england or to the late 1600s and samuel de champlain with his fellow french settlers who gave thanks for a successful crop. Rather than simply asking students if they have a word use definitions or fill in the blanks to make students think. In 1609 a group of pilgrims left england for the religious freedom in holland where they lived and prospered.

The pilgrims and americas first thanksgiving. These early thanksgivings took the form of a special church service rather than a feast. The first thanksgiving was a harvest celebration held by the pilgrims of plymouth colony in the 17th century.

Those plants you grow are called crops. It is sometimes called american thanksgiving outside the united states to distinguish it from the canadian holiday of the same nameit originated as a harvest festival and to this day the centerpiece of thanksgiving celebrations remains thanksgiving dinner. The pilgrims who celebrated the first thanksgiving in america were fleeing religious persecution in their native england.

Very little is actually known about the event because only two firsthand accounts of the feast were ever written. Many myths surround the first thanksgiving.