Fill in the Blanks ThanksgivingOnline version Complete the text. by veronica Espinosa 1 thanks corn cold three Mayflower future American friends November dinner food died cabins God harvest tribe Thanksgiving Native Pilgrims is a very important festivity and it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of . However , schools , many factories and offices are closed for four days : Thursday , Friday , Saturday and Sunday . So it is a very important holiday for American people . Thanksgiving is a special day for families to be together and to thank for everything they have . Americans travel great distances to be with their families , so it has become one of the busiest weekend for transport by train or even plane . Why is Thanksgiving such an important day ? The tradition started with the , the founders of America . The Pilgrims left Great Britain in 1620 to escape religious persecution . They wanted to start a new life in America and practice their religion freely . About one hundred men , women and children left Britain on a small ship called the . Their trip on sea was very difficult and some of them . They arrived on the north - east coast of North America in December 1620 and founded Plymouth . The area was a wilderness , moreover it was almost winter and they had neither home nor . They immediately built small wooden houses called' " . Yet it was too late to cultivate crops . To make things worse , that winter was particularly harsh and . Almost half of the Pilgrims died because their living conditions were very bad . Happily , they were not the only people living there . Indeed when they arrived the Americans had been living in this country for a very long time , especially the called the 'Wampanoag's " . Not yet knowing that these new white people would massacre them later , they helped them survive during that long winter . In the spring these Indians helped them , teaching them how to grow and other plants , how to breed animals , hunt and live in the wilderness . Soon the Native Americans and the Pilgrims became . The Pilgrims worked hard and the summer was excellent , By November 1621 every one had food and a home . There was hope for the . Governor William Bradford , the Pilgrim leader , decided to celebrate with a for the Pilgrims and the Native Americans together . He wanted to give To God . This was the first Thanksgiving dinner and it lasted for days !
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