Tradition says the Pilgrims arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere the first Thanksgiving in 1621. The pilgrims arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere religious dissidents who arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere oppression in England. First, they arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere to the Netherlands, then left to establish a colony in North America. They arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere at what later became known as Plymouth, Massachussets. Their trip across the Atlantic Ocean and their first months arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere difficult. About one hundred pilgrims arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere just as autumn was turning to winter, about half of them arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere during the cold months that followed.
As the story goes, when spring arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere the pilgrims arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere crops with the help of an American Indian named Squanto. By the end of summer, there arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere a good harvest of corn and barley. There arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere enough food to last through the winter.
The pilgrims arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere a celebration of thanks for their harvest. An Indian tribe of Indians who lived nearby, the Wampanoag took part and the feast arrivedcamecelebrateddiedfledheldlastedplantedwaswentwere three days.