ANTONIO AGUIRRE IVORRA: THanksgiving quiz

Thanksgiving Day

In the USA, Thanksgiving Day is on the fourth Thursday in November. The first Thanksgiving in the USA a feast in 1620 shared by the Pilgrims (who had recently Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts) and the Wampanoag Indians, who their corn , pumpkinand wild turkeys This first feast was not until more than ten years later. Thanksgiving was a national holiday in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. On Sept. 6, 1620 the Pilgrims left Plymouth (England) for the New World on a ship the Mayflower. They 110 men, women and children. The voyage 65 days. When they , the Pilgrims afraid of the local Native American Indians. But the Patuxets a peaceful group and anything bad to them. The first winter very hard for the Pilgrims: of the 110 Pilgrims who England, only 50 the first winter. But on March 16, 1621, an Indian into the settlement. His name Samoset. He soon with another Indian named Squanto, who could speak English and the Pilgrims how to plant Indian corn. The harvest in October very successful and the Pilgrims enough food for the winter. It was time to celebrate. Nowadays, Thanksgiving Day in America is a time to offer thanks, of family reunions and holiday meals. A time of turkeys, pumpkin pie and Indian corn. A time of holiday parades, football games on TV and giant balloons.