Thanksgiving and Black Friday

Thanksgiving is one of the most celebrated festivals in America.
Americans celebrated this festival on the fourth Thursday of November (this year it is on the 26^th).

Schools and businesses close, so many people have a four-day holiday to spend time with their families.


 

Traditionally, Thanksgiving was a day when people gave thanks for the year's harvest. The first Thanksgiving celebration was in 1621 when the early European settlers said "thank you" for their successful harvest in America.



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In September 1620, a group of English people called the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth, England across the Atlantic Ocean, in a ship called the Mayflower, to Cape Cod in North America. They went away from England because they did not agree with the religion in England. They wanted to make a new life in a new country.
They sailed for sixty-six dangerous days across the Atlantic Ocean. When they arrived, they called their new home New England, but they were not the first people to live there. The Wampanoag were the first people. 

 

Sometimes the Pilgrim Fathers fought with the Wampanoag, but they also learned a lot from them. The Wampanoag taught them to live from their new land, and to grow and cook new kinds of fruit and vegetables.




The first winter was difficult. Many of the Pilgrim Fathers died because it was very cold and they had little food. In the spring they started to grow food, with the help of some friendly Wampanoag, and in the autumn of 1621 they celebrated their first harvest. They gave thanks, not only for the harvest, but for their new home, new life and new friends.

 

Black Friday started as an American tradition the day after Thanksgiving each year.  It is a day when shops offer fantastic discounts and deals on loads of products and is seen as the kick-off to the Christmas shopping season. Nowadays, Black Friday is also a popular day for bargain hunters in different countries around the world including Canada, Mexico, India, and the UK. 

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