Public Holidays in the United States

This Christian holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. It is celebrated on December 25th.

• Independence Day

• Thanksgiving

• Christmas

• New Year's Day

Many people visit cemeteries and memorials on ________ ___ to honor and mourn those who died while serving in the U.S. military.

• Memorial Day

• Saint Patrick's Day

• Independence Day

• Labor Day

In the Gregorian calendar, __________ is the first day of the year: 1 January.

• Labor Day

• New Year's Day

• Columbus Day

• Independence Day

This day celebrates the birthday of the civil rights leader. It is observed on the third Monday in January.

• Veterans Day

• Washington's Birthday

• Columbus Day

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Often referred to as Presidents Day, this holiday commemorates the birthday of the nation’s first president.

• Columbus Day

• Washington's Birthday

• Thanksgiving

• Independence Day

__________ commemorates the final emancipation of enslaved people in the United States on June 19, 1865, following the end of the Civil War.

• Independence Day

• Columbus Day

• Juneteenth National Independence Day

• Memorial Day

This holiday, first observed in 1882 in New York City, celebrates the social and economic achievements of American workers.

• Veterans Day

• Labor Day

• Christmas

• Juneteenth National Independence Day

_________ celebrates the fall harvest and commemorates a 1621 feast shared between the Wampanoag people and the English colonists of Plymouth.

• Veterans Day

• Washington's Birthday

• Independence Day

• Thanksgiving

This holiday commemorates the anniversary of the passage of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776.

• Independence Day

• Juneteenth

• Juneteenth National Independence Day

• New Year's Day

This holiday commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus on the shores of the Bahamas in 1492. It is celebrated on the second Monday in October.

• Independence Day

• Columbus Day

• Memorial Day

• Emancipation Day