What is Thanksgiving day a celebration of?

Answer 1

When the pilgrims first came to America during the winter many starved and died. The Indians showed them how to plant crops here and when the harvest came in a celebration was held that later became Thanksgiving.

Answer 2

Answer

It shows how you will appreciate things.

Detailed Answer:
Traditionally "Thanksgiving" is a type of harvest festival that can be traced back in any culture to ancient times when celebrations were held after harvesting; this can also include trade markets. See: Chinese Moon Festival "Zhongqiu Jie " (中秋節) - (c.2170 BC) - the oldest documented harvest festival.

Historically speaking:

• The first "Thanksgiving" festivals in North America were practiced by all native cultures as fall festivals, gatherings, dances (pow-wows).
• The first European "Thanksgiving" in North America was given by 600 Spanish settlers that landed in St. Augustine Florida September 8th, 1565.
• The first "Official Thanksgiving" festival was part of The Virgina Charter 1607; the charter required a 'day of thanksgiving' - this can be seen as the first officially chartered day of such celebration in North America.
• The Continental Congress (the predecessor of the US Government) made a decree of such a celebration in 1777; the first national charter of such a celebration in North America.
  it was first celebrated by the pilgrims on 1680

Answer 3

Thanksgiving is the celebration of the harvest. Many cultures had to work very hard all spring and summer to grow enough food to last through the winter when crops did not grow. The work was hard, and long and when it was over, the fields were bare and the crops stored there was a celebration of thanks for a bountiful harvest.
2 give thanx 4 wut u hav

Answer 4

Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, Has been a annual traditon for the United States since 1863. Celebrating on the fourth tuesday of november.

Because during the civil war, President Abraham Lincoln suggested they should have a holiday to represent when there safeness from god when they were colonists. First, in the 16th century, Spain conducted them. Thanksgiving services were routine in what was to become the Commonwealth of Virginia as early as 1607, with the first permament settlement in Jamestown, Virgina, Holding a thanksgiving in 1610. On December 4, 1619, 38 English settlers arrived at Berkely Hundred (about 20 miles upstream from Jamestown.) The group's charter required that the day of arrival be observed yearly as a "day of thanksgiving" to God. On that first day, Captain John Woodlief held the service of thanksgiving. As quoted from the section of the Charter of Berkeley Hundred specifying the thanksgiving service: "We ordaine that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God." In 1622, nine settlers were killed at Berkely Hundred as well as a third of the entire Virgina Colony, during the Indian Massacre. The Berkeley Hundred site and other outlying locations were abandoned as the colonists withdrew to Jamestown and other more secure points. After several years, the site became Berkerly Plantation, and was long the traditional home of the Harrison family, one of the First Families In Virginia. The modern Thanksgiving holiday traces its origins from a 1621 celebration at the Plymouth Plantation, where the Plymouth settlers held a harvest feast after a successful growing season. This was continued in later years, first as an impromptu religious observance, and later as a civil tradition.The Pilgrims held an even greater Thanksgiving celebration in 1623, after a switch from communal farming to privatized farming, a fast, and a refreshing 14-day rain resulted in a larger harvest. William DeLoss Love calculates that this thanksgiving was made on Wednesday, July 30, 1623, a day prior to the arrival of a supply ship with more colonists, but prior to the fall harvest. In Love's opinion this 1623 thanksgiving was significant because the order to recognize the event was from civil authority, (Governor Bradford) and not from the church, making it likely the first civil recognition of Thanksgiving in New England. Irregular thanksgivings continued after favorable events and days of fasting after unfavorable ones. In the Plymouth tradition, a thanksgiving day was primarily a church observance, rather than a feast day. But thanksgiving days did have a civil observance linked to the religious one, as in 1623. Gradually, an annual Thanksgiving after the harvest developed in the mid-17th century. This did not occur on any set day or necessarily on the same day in different colonies in America.

Answer 5

If you're talking about the United States holiday, it commemorates our successful settlement of the new world. We were thankful for surviving our first year in America and continue to celebrate successful harvests each year.

Answer 6

the pilgrims 1621 celebration of their good fortune

Answer 7

Thanksgiving is a United States National holiday. It is a holiday to celebrate being thankful for what we have. It is celebrated with a large feast on the fourth Thursday in November.

Answer 8

Giving thanks that the pilgrimd came