Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in Canada, the United States, some of the
Caribbean Islands, and Liberia. It began as a day of giving thanks for the __________of the harvest
 of the preceding year. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and on
the fourth Thursday of November in the United States, and around the same part of the year in other
places. Although Thanksgiving has historical ____________in religious and cultural traditions, it
has long been celebrated as a ____________holiday as well.

secular

blessing

roots



Pies, turkey and presidential pardening:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/thanksgiving-day-whats-the-history-of-the-holiday-and-why-does-th
e-us-celebrate-pilgrim-fathers/


https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/thanksgiving-day

Turkey Pardening Ceremony

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/11/16/national-thanksgiving-turkey-pardoning-cerem
ony