Your students will be excited to learn the fascinating history behind the holiday! These notes (with a detailed key) correspond with the 26-slide First Thanksgiving Powerpoint (Click Here). Students will enhance their understanding of the Pilgrim story, including King James' persecution, their time in Leiden, the Mayflower voyage, hardships in the New World, friendly Wampanoag neighbors, the failed common storehouse system, and Governor Bradford's establishment of private property rights. The en