National holidays National holidays

A National Holiday is a A National Holiday is a holiday that holiday that celebrates an celebrates an important event or important event or person in Americas person in Americas historyhistory

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ThanksgivingThanksgiving

Its celebrated on the last Its celebrated on the last Thursday in November. Thursday in November.

The first thanksgiving The first thanksgiving was celebrated by the was celebrated by the Pilgrims and the IndiansPilgrims and the Indians

We celebrate it by we We celebrate it by we have feast,give thanks have feast,give thanks to god ,and some to god ,and some schools have football schools have football games. games.

Martin Luther King Jr.Martin Luther King Jr.

It is celebrated on It is celebrated on the Third Monday the Third Monday in January in January

He was a civil He was a civil rights leaderrights leader

His dream was for His dream was for all people to be all people to be equalequal

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Presidents DayPresidents Day

Is celebrated Is celebrated on 3on 3rdrd Monday in Monday in FebuaryFebuary

We celebrate We celebrate it by it by cookouts and cookouts and stores have stores have sales.sales.

Learn about Learn about it in schoolit in school

Independence DayIndependence Day

This holiday is This holiday is celebrated on the celebrated on the 44thth of July . of July .

We celebrate it by We celebrate it by we have cook we have cook outs and we outs and we watch fireworks.watch fireworks.

Memorial DayMemorial Day

We celebrate it on We celebrate it on the last Monday the last Monday in May.in May.

Decorating our Decorating our loved ones graves loved ones graves and spending and spending time with familytime with family

Columbus DayColumbus Day

It is celebrated on It is celebrated on the second the second Monday in Monday in october.october.

We celebrate it We celebrate it because he because he discovered discovered AmericaAmerica

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