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1、 In 1620,a boat filled with more than one hundred people sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the New World-America,seeking for a place where they could have freedom of worship.(This religious group had begun to question the beliefs of the Church of England and they wanted to separate from

2、it.)The Help Their first winter in the New World was difficult.They had arrived too late to grow many crops,and without fresh food,half the colony died from disease.The following spring the Indians taught them how to grow corn,a new food for the colonists.They showed them other crops to grow in the

3、unfamiliar soil and how to hunt and fish.In the autumn of 1621,bountiful crops of corn,barley,beans and pumpkins were harvested.The colonists had much to be thankful for,so a feast was planned.They invited the local Indian chief and 90 Indians.The Indians brought deer to roast with the turkeys and o

4、ther wild game offered by the colonists.The colonists had learned how to cook cranberries and different kinds of corn and squash dishes from the Indians.In following years,many of the original colonists celebrated the autumn harvest with a feast of thanks.The Harvest After the United States became a

5、n independent country,Congress recommended one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole nation to celebrate.George Washington suggested the date November 26 as Thanksgiving Day.Then in 1863,at the end of a long and bloody civil war,Abraham Lincoln asked all Americans to set aside the last Thursday in November as a day of thanksgiving.Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday of November,a different date every year.The President must proclaim that date as the official celebration.The Set of the FestivalThe Macys Thanksgiving Day ParadeThe Rich DinnerThe Game