THANKSGIVING IN THE UNITED STATES

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Across
  1. 3. tribe who helped the British colonists to cultivate the land
  2. 8. traditional dessert at Thanksgiving
  3. 10. Bird eaten traditionally at Thanksgiving
  4. 11. Collection of ripe (mûr) fruit and vegetables grown on the land
  5. 13. Feeling of loss when someone dies ; Day of ……… : commemoration of deaths of American Indians at the hands of British Colonists (at the hands of = à cause de, sous la responsabilité de)
  6. 14. New York department store who organises an annual event in the city’s streets on Thanksgiving
  7. 15. Month when Thanksgiving is celebrated
Down
  1. 1. Plants grown for food
  2. 2. Ship which crossed the Atlantic with the first English settlers
  3. 4. People indigenous to a particular place / region ex. Indians
  4. 5. American Indian who taught the settlers to grow food to eat
  5. 6. Group of people who left England to escape persecution, settled in America
  6. 7. Religious group persecuted for their beliefs in the early 17th Century
  7. 9. Event organised by famous department store in New York City every Thanksgiving
  8. 12. President who declared that Thanksgiving should be celebrated