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the national holidays in the united states and is most closely connected with the earliest history of the country. in 1620, the settlers, or pilgrims, they sailed to america on the may flower, seeking a place where they could have freedom of worship. after a tempestuous twomonth voyage they landed at in icy november, what is now plymouth, massachusetts. during their first winter, over half of the settlers died of[1] starvation or epidemics. those who survived began sowing in the first spring. all summer long they waited for the harvests w