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It was very different from the traditional story...no turkey! No women or children! No one knows the exact date the first Thanksgiving was held. We do know that it lasted for three days and it was sometime around 1621 (give or take a few years).
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Societal reform using reason, challenge ideas grounded in tradition and faith, and advance knowledge through the scientific method. Science, skepticism and intellectual interchange were promoted.Superstition, intolerance and some abuses by church and state were opposed.
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Colonists were upset about taxes. They gathered in an angry crowd and harrassed a group of English soldiers. The soldiers fired upon the group, killing 5.
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Patriots were mad about taxes on tea. Sons of Liberty dumped British tea into the Boston harbor.
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The first battles of the Revolutionary War. The British won at Lexington, but then were defeated at Concord.
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Removed Native Americans from their homes to make room for federal land.
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