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James W. Baker, the Senior Historian at Plimoth Plantation, says that Thanksgiving is an invented tradition. What evidence from the text supports the idea that today’s Thanksgiving is an invented tradition?

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It doesn’t originate in any one event. It is based on the New England puritan Thanksgiving, which is a religious Thanksgiving, and the traditional harvest celebrations of England and New England and maybe other ideas like commemorating the pilgrims.

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