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completely IGNOR this unless you have a strange intrest in the history of thanksgiving OR YOU WANT TO PROOFREAD because im was too lazy and totally did this last minute. im saving it here so i can get to it tomorrow because i dont have compatible floppy discs and i dont trust them.
September 6, 1620, the english pilgrims set out to the new world in desperate hopes of religious and civil rights.
For two months, over one hundred passengers fought the grueling waters. They landed in New England in late November, and on December 11, the first American document of civil government, the Mayflower Compact, was signed.
The pilgrims were unprepared for the harsh winter that they had arrived to and approximately half of them did not survive, however, through determination and help from the Native Americans managed to produce a bountiful harvest.
In thanks of god, and celebration of their new found friends, the pilgrims then declared a feast that would last three days beginning on December 13, 1620.
Although Virgina claims the first Thanksgivings, which dated back as far as 1607, this was the first American thanksgiving celebration.
In 1789, the president, George Washington, declared the first Thursday November to be the day of giving thanks to god. Ot was Abraham Lincoln, however, who, in 1863, declared the last Thursday of November national Thanksgiving Day.
Today Thanksgiving is celebrated as a day of being grateful, having appreciation, watching football and eating pumpkin pie.