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The British colonists arrived in America on board of the ship Mayflower.
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In autumn, the British colonists or Pilgrims got a successful corn harvest with the help of the local tribe of Native Americans. They celebrated it with a three day feast.
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The feast became known as Thanksgiving for the first time to mark the end of a long drought.
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President George Washington proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in that year.
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President Abraham Lincoln declared that the last Thursday in November should be celebrated as Thanksgiving and it became a regular holiday in the United States.
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Macy's, one of the largest department stores in the world, launched its Thanksgiving Day parade.
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It was the first time that the term 'Black Friday' appeared in The New York Times and they referred to it as "the busiest shopping and traffic day of the year" in Philadelphia.
