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Thanksgiving - The tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving

Time: 1620s

Place: U.S. (then New England)

Details: Pilgrims and Puritans who emigrated from England in the 1620s and 1630s carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England.

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