Contents: The History of Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Today Thanksgiving Quiz

The first Thanksgiving happened in 1621, at Plymouth Colony, in Massachusetts.

The feast lasted three days providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.

They ate fowl, venison, fish, lobsters, clams, berries, fruit, pumpkin, squash, beetroot, and turkey.

fowl [faul] – дичь,venison [venzn] – оленина

Painting of "The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" By Jennie A. Brownscombe. (1914)

The Pilgrims were giving thanks to God for helping them survive their first brutal winter.

It has been an annual tradition in the USA since 1863.

Now people have family parties.

People are thankful to God, their family and friends for good relationships

and for all they have.

They eat roast turkey and pumpkin pies.

On the 4th Thursday of November.

In 1621.

At Plymouth Colony, in Massachusetts.

Pilgrims and Native Americans.

They ate turkey, venison, fish, lobsters, clams, berries, fruit, pumpkin, squash, beetroot.

They were giving thanks to God for helping them survive their first winter.

In 1863.

They have a family dinner andfamily parties.

They thank God, their family and friends for good relationships and for all they have.

Roast turkey and a pumpkin pie.

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