By the beginning of the 17th century, the Pilgrims used to celebrate Thanksgiving after their harvests in the New World. At that time, the celebration took three days of praying as a way of thanking God.
The "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated in October 1621 when the Pilgrims got their first harvest in their new lands in America. Not only the Pilgrims but also the Native Americans attended the festival.
From 1789 Thanksgiving has been celebrated intermittently in the US until President A. Lincoln declared "Thanksgiving" a national holiday which would take place on the fourth Thursday of November.
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were not used to physical labor.
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the first men on Jamestown were not laborers, but businessmen.
Answer:Puritan
Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley.
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The Age of Imperialism
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism, extending its political and economic influence around the globe. That pivotal era in the history of our nation is the subject of this on-line history.
Contents
Expansion in the Pacific:
A Letter to an Emperor
Footholds in the Pacific
The Spanish-American War:
Remember the Maine
A Splendid Little War
A Gift from the Gods
The Boxer Rebellion
The Panama Canal
U.S. Intervention in Latin America
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Degree in History (focus Jewish studies) and Spanish, New Mexico State U. 1990</span><span>
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