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In 1607 a violent quarrel broke out between hardheaded English King James I and a little group of equally hardheaded English men and women. They chose to leave England, and during 1607-08 they went to Holland.
In 1617 the Separatists at last decided to establish their own state in the New World. Three years later they finally were able to begin their voyage in July 1620 on the old erratic Speedwell. At Southampten, they joined up with their other ship, the Mayflower. But after three hundred miles the Speedwell began to ship water.
Fair winds at first carried the Mayflower across the sea toward her destination in northern Virginia. After sixty-five troubled days they sighted land –not the coast of Virginia for which they had set sail, but far-off shore of Cape Cod.
They said they must stick together and draw up an agreement on laws by which they would live until they could get permission from England to settle in this new country ; they wrote the Mayflower Compact.
They were helped by the Indians and that why, after the first harvest, in 1623, they made a feast to thank them.
On October 3, 1863, President Lincoln issued his Thanksgiving Proclamation, after which Thanksgiving became a national holiday observed on the last Thursday of November.
So the students came with their teacher to learn about Thanksgiving through games like crosswords, filling blanks … It was fun !
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