What are three facts about the first thanksgiving?

Answer 1

Thanksgiving was about three days long meant to celebrate the colony's first successful harvest. It was the Wampanoages' idea and it was a day of religion and prayer, not food.

Answer

It was conducted by the Pilgrims.

it was very crowded all they had was birds and vegatables. Very long it lasted for 3 days. The Pilgrims grew the crops with help from the Wampanoags and the Wampanoags caught the birds I think they might have had fish to. It was so crowded because Massasoit brought 70 of the Wampanoags + the Pilgrims it would be so crowded.

Answer

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast which is considered the first Thanksgiving celebration in the colonies. This harvest meal became a symbol of cooperation between English colonists and Native Americans. Native American tribes throughout the Americas organized harvest festivals, ceremonial dances, and other celebrations of thanks for centuries before the arrival of Europeans in North America.

The only two items on the dinner menu that historians know for certain were venison and wild fowl. The pilgrims didn't use forks; they ate with spoons, knives, and their fingers. In the seventeenth century, a person's social standing determined what he or she ate. The best food was placed next to the most important people. People didn't tend to eat everything that was on the table, they just ate what was closest to them.

The pilgrims probably didn't have pies or anything sweet at the harvest feast. They didn't have an oven or much sugar to bake pies, cakes and breads. People tend to think of English food at bland, but the pilgrims used many spices, including cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, pepper, and dried fruit. The best way to cook foods in the seventeenth century was to roast them.

The biggest meal of the day for the colonists was eaten at noon and it was called noonmeat or dinner. The foods that the colonists and Wampanoag Indians normally ate were similar, but their eating habits were different. While the colonists ate regular meals-breakfast, dinner, and supper-the Wampanoags tended to eat when they were hungry and had pots cooking all day long.

Answer 2

The pilgrams wanted to thank the Indians for helping then survive in the new world
it was celebrated by the pilgrims so they could thank the native amaricans for helping them settle in amarica.
to celibrate their harvest
There are many reasons to celebrate Thanksgiving

1. 
   the harvest - for the past 6,000 years, ever since humanity discovered agriculture, human societies have celebrated the harvest. Globalization and industrialization has made modern man less dependent on the sesonal harvest, but we still depend upon the earth to grant us our food.
2. 
   national unity - it was President Abraham Lincoln that first declared Thanksgiving a national holiday as one more way to unite the North and the South after the War.
3. 
   spiritual renewal - most religions teach the spiritual benefits of expressing gratitude toward God for all our good fortune.
4. 
   national pride - although Plymouth colony was not the first English colony in North America, the story of Plymouth colony makes a far better origin story for the United States than the failed colony at Jamestown, Virginia.
5. 
   Native American appriciation - twice a year, Americans are reminded of the pivotal role of the Native Americans in their own history, (see also: Why we should celebrate Columbus Day). It should never be forgotten that when the Native Americans discovered the Plymouth colonists freezing and starving, they taught them how to plant food in the New World (see also: Who was Squanto).

In the early fall of 1621 the 53 surviving pilgrims celebrated their successful harvest, as was the English custom. During this time ,"many of the Indianscoming...amongst the rest their great king Massasoit, with some 90 men." The 1621 celebration is remembered as The First Thanksgiving. In Plymouth, Pilgrims did not call this harvest festival Thanksgiving, although, they did give thanks to God. To them, a day of thanksgiving was purely religious. The first recorded religious day of thanksgiving was held in 1623 in response to a providential rainfall. The religious day of thanksgiving and the harvest festival involved a single event

The Pilgrims shared it with the Native Americans because they had taught the colonists to plants crops and hunt wild game. Without the Native Americans, the Pilgrims may not have survived the harsh winter and been able to celebrate their first harvest of plentiful crops in the New World.

Answer 3

1. Thanksgiving is celebrated once a year on the fourth Thursday of November.

2. in 1620 the pilgrims crossed the Atlantic in the Mayflower sailing vessel. The pilgrims sailed for two months on rough seas and endure a very difficult journey.

3. The native Indians taught the pilgrims how to grow various vegetables such as corn and pumpkins, this helped them to survive. Both the pilgrims and natives celebrated with a grand feast in the Autumn of 1621 to thank God for His blessings. This was known as 'The First Thanksgiving Feast'. It was not a annual event at the time but a feast would occur every few years. It became an official and a yearly occurrence from 1863 when President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be thanksgiving.

4.Sarah Joshpha who was a magazine writer championed the cause of Thanksgiving. She wrote many articles and letters to governors and presidents. Her campaign lasted for 40 years and finally met with success with Lincoln's proclamation.

5. It was in 1941 that congress at last sanctioned Thanksgiving as a legal holiday.

6. The feast at the time was more of the English traditional 'Harvest Time' in that it lasted three days.

7.The Pilgrims were the 102 passengers on the Mayflower vessel that set sail from England in the month of September, 1620-all heading for the other side of the Atlantic hoping to begin a new life. In November, they arrived after an exhausting journey on the shores of Cape Cod

(present day Massachusetts.)

8. Thanksgiving is always celebrated with a traditional feast of food at the table but before families begin to eat, they remember to give thanks to God in prayer at the table before eating.

9.There are 28 different areas in the USA that are named Plymouth after the first landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.

10. Turkey, sweet potatoes, corn and pumpkin are common foods related to the Thanksgiving day meal.

Answer 4

Thanksgiving came about when festivals were held before and after the harvest cycles to give thanks for a good harvest, and to rejoice together after much hard work.

Answer 5

• The first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth plantation in 1621

Answer 6

• It was between the Indians and the pilgrims
• They did not eat turkey
• Held in the autumn of 1621
• Celebrated a successful harvest

Answer 7

interesting fact about thanksgiving