Holiday Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 3. This holiday is tied to a 1621 three-day feast between Pilgrims and their Wampanoag allies, and its national date wasn't permanently fixed until 1941 after a president controversially moved it to extend the shopping season.
  2. 6. This federal holiday marks the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and enforced the freedom of all enslaved people, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
  3. 7. This holiday celebrates the day the Continental Congress formally adopted a document in 1776 that declared the colonies' break from Britain.
  4. 9. This Christian holiday celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ and has no fixed date, falling on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the spring equinox.
  5. 10. This holiday was signed into federal law just days after federal troops were sent to break up a railway workers' strike that brought the nation's rail system to a halt.
  6. 11. This holiday honors a British-born man who was kidnapped, brought to Ireland as a slave, and later credited with spreading Christianity throughout the country.
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  1. 1. This holiday traces back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain and is now the second largest commercial holiday in the United States after Christmas.
  2. 2. This holiday commemorates an 1862 battle in which an underdog Mexican force defeated a larger French army sent by Napoleon III, and was actually born as a holiday in the United States, not the country it is associated with.
  3. 4. This holiday's tradition of making resolutions traces back to the ancient Babylonians, and its date of January 1st was established by Julius Caesar, who named the month after a Roman god said to look both into the past and toward the future.
  4. 5. This holiday was illegal to celebrate in colonial Boston from 1659 to 1681, and didn't become a federal holiday in the United States until 1870.
  5. 8. This holiday traces back to a Roman priest who secretly performed marriages against the emperor's orders and allegedly signed his final letter "From your Valentine."