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The Pilgrim Fathers and the first Thanksgiving Day
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Who were the Pilgrim Fathers?
They were a group of settlers from the UK that escaped religious persecutions. They went to the East Coast of North America to find work and an opportunity to live freely.
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In 1620 they left England in a ship called the Mayflower
after three months they arrived in their new home and found a new Colony.
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The first months in the new country were very difficult:
Why? it was winter, they didn’t know how to build houses or cultivate the land, half of them died.
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But what happened?
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In autumn 1621, 51 Pilgrims and 90 Natives celebrated the First Thanksgiving : they wanted to thank the Natives for their help during the first difficult months .
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