The traditional American Thanksgiving Day ______ goes back in 1621. In that year a special ______ wa

s prepared in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The ______ who had settled there had left England because they felt ______ of religious freedom. They came to the new land and faced difficulties in coming across the ocean. The ship which carded them was called the Mayflower. The North Atlantic was difficult to travel. There were bad storms. They were ______ in learning to live in the new land by the Indians who ______ the region. The Puritans, as they were called, had much to be thankful for. Their religious practices were no longer a ______ of criticism by the ______. ______. When they selected the fourth Thursday of November for their Thanksgiving celebration, they invited their neighbors, the Indians, to join them in dinner and a prayer of gratitude for the new life. ______. They remembered their dead who did not live to see the shores of Massachusetts. ______.