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Pilgrims, Mayflower, Thanksgiving

pilgrims

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457246585/reconsidering-the-pilgrims-piety-and-americas-founding-principles

ship > Mayflower

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457246585/reconsidering-the-pilgrims-piety-and-americas-founding-principles

Mayflower compact

In the Mayflower Compact,

the governing document signed

shortly before the Pilgrims disembarked

in Massachusetts' Provincetown Harbor,

Pilgrim leaders said they undertook

their voyage across the Atlantic

"for the glory of God

and the advancement of the Christian faith."

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/26/
457246585/reconsidering-the-pilgrims-piety-and-americas-founding-principles

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/26/
457246585/reconsidering-the-pilgrims-piety-and-americas-founding-principles

Thanksgiving

The Pilgrims

are among the early heroes of American history,

celebrated every Thanksgiving for their perseverance

in the New World against great odds.

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/26/
457246585/reconsidering-the-pilgrims-piety-and-americas-founding-principles

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/27/
thanksgiving-on-the-reservation-is-a-celebration-of-our-way-of-live-
and-a-middle-finger-to-americas-failed-colonialism

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/26/
457246585/reconsidering-the-pilgrims-piety-and-americas-founding-principles

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