Thanksgiving

A. What is thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving is a celebration to express thankfulness, gratitude, and appreciation to God, family and friends for for the harvest, ralationships and everything they have.
This celebration has been celebrated for 1000's of years.
B. Who were the pilgrims?
They were the people who traveled for 66 days and with over a 100 people in a small ship until they arrived to U.Sm,in 1620, in what is now called Massachusetts, and they also started with the tradition of thanksgivng
C. What is the Mayflower?
The Mayflower was a small ship in which the pilgrims were traveling.
Mayflower set sail from England in July of 1620, but had to turn around twice because Speedwell, the ship it was traveling with, kept leaking. It finally got underway on September 6, leaving the leaky Speedwell behind.
D. Who were the Wampanoag?
They are the native people from U.S and they've beeen living there before anybody else.
Their name means People of the First Light.
Now they can't live like their ancestors because people don't respect nature but they try to live that way.
E. What happened to the Pilgrims during the first winter?
When they landed at Plymouth, north of Cape Cod, it was winter so they couldn't plant anything and bacause of the sno it was very difficult for them to build their houses and many of them died.
F. What did the Wampanoag do for the pilgrims?
They helped the pilgrims to survive , specailly there was an indian named Squanto who spoke english and he was the one who helped them the most, he taught them how to hunt, fish and grow corn.
G. Why did they celebrate the first Thanksgiving?
They celebrated it because they had a very successful harvest thanks to Squanto, so thay decided to celebrate and he invited some of the indians to the "party". It lasted 3 days.
E. When is Thanksgiving Celebrated now?
Now thanksgiving day is celebrated the fourth Thursday in November.