England was actually the second stop for many of the pilgrims on their way to America. About 40 percent of the passengers on the Mayflower were from what European nation?

Dutch culture had a big impact on life in the New World, most notably in the form of civil marriages. (We see you, separation of church and state.) Some Dutch also claim that Thanksgiving itself was an idea cribbed from them and their annual celebration of the end of the Spanish siege of Leiden in 1574.

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