感恩节的起源（英语）

Thanksgiving Day originated in Plymouth, Massachusetts in the early immigrants. These immigrants in the United Kingdom, known as Puritans, because they are the Church of the Reformation, the British did not completely dissatisfied, and the King Church and the United Kingdom for their political repression and religious persecution, these Puritans from the British church, leave the Netherlands, Subsequently decided to move to other side of the Atlantic's desolate and uninhabited land in the hope of religious belief in accordance with their wishes to live in freedom.
September 1620, the "Mayflower" ship carrying 102 Puritans, and their families to leave Britain into the North American continent, after two months of hard sailing, in the Plymouth, Mass. landing ashore, from settled. The first winter, due to lack of food, cold weather, rampant infectious diseases and overworked, these Puritans, who died suddenly more than half. Next spring, the local Indian tribe chief