Question 14 verbal section 4:
Can anyone help clarify why is this option
“associated national holidays with religion and familial gathering” true?
I thought it should be wrong since the passage did not talk about any national holidays other than Thanksgiving.
I don’t remember the passage but you’re probably right, can you show me the passage again please?
please see the full passage here:
Historians like me who have studied the history of food have found that most modern Thanksgiving traditions began in the mid-19th century, more than two centuries after the Pilgrims’ first harvest celebration. The reinvention of the Pilgrims’ celebration as a national holiday was largely the work of Sarah Hale. Born in New Hampshire in 1784, as a young widow she published poetry to earn a living. Most notably, she wrote the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” In 1837, Hale became the editor of the popular magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book. Fiercely religious and family-focused, it crusaded for the creation of an annual national holiday of “Thanksgiving and Praise” commemorating the Pilgrims’ thanksgiving feast. Hale and her colleagues leaned on 1621 lore for historical justification. Like many of her contemporaries, she assumed the Pilgrims ate turkey at their first feast because of the abundance of edible wild turkeys in New England. This campaign took decades, partly due to a lack of enthusiasm among white Southerners. Many of them considered an earlier celebration among Virginia colonists in honor of supply ships that arrived at Jamestown in 1610 to be the more important precedent. The absence of Southerners serving in Congress during the Civil War enabled President Abraham Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863.
I would say from this it’s reasonable to assume they associate national holidays with religion.
The sentence is saying they made it into a holiday due to religion. But it’s not an ETS question, so feel free to disagree.
Thank you for confirming.
