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186. What is Thanksgiving?: The REAL Story Behind America’s Most Famous Holiday (English Vocabulary Lesson)
Thinking in English
The Story of Thanksgiving in America
Americans are taught that the pilgrims met a Native American tribe in 1621. They invited members of the tribe to join them for a celebratory feast. But this is not true and other groups held Thanksgiving feasts 70 years earlier. In 1817, New York became the first state to make Thanksgiving an official holiday. The southern US states did not celebrate Thanksgiving at that time. Abraham Lincoln in 1863 made Thanksgiving a national holiday. It has been celebrated on Thorpe Thursday every November since.
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