The drink that the Puritans brought with them on the Mayflower was beer. The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three days.The first Thanksgiving feast was held in the presence of around ninety Wampanoag Indians and the Wampanoag chief, Massasoit, was also invited. The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in the year 1621, in Massachusetts.The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to prepare a thanksgiving feast. By the fall of 1621, only half of the pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The Wampanoag Indians were the people who taught the Pilgrims how to get the land ready for planting.On December 11, 1620, the first Pilgrims (or Puritans, as they were first known) landed at Plymouth Rock.They sailed on a ship named the Mayflower. The Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to reach North America.In 1620, the Pilgrims moved back to England and prepared to leave for the New World. They lived in Holland until 1620, when they became dissatisfied with their situation and the effects that living in Holland was having on their children.
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