Every year on 1.___ fourth Thursday in 2.___ November 3.___ Americans celebrate4.___ so-called Thanksgiving. 5.___ first people to celebrate this day were 6.___ Pilgrims. In November, 1621, they sat down to eat together and to give thanks to 7.___ God for enabling them to survive 8.___ hardships of their first year in America.
9.___ Pilgrims were joined at their feast by 10.___ Amerindians. 11.___ people of 12.___ near forests had shared 13.___ corn with 14.____ Pilgrims and shown them 15.___ best places to catch 16.___ fish. Later the Amerindians had given 17.___ seed corn to 18.___ English settlers and shown them how to plant 19.___ crops that would grow well in 20.___ American soil. Without them there would have been no Thanksgiving.