Thanksgiving

Because there is another question relating to Thanksgiving which leaves out significant information, I shall answer this one.

Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday by Abraham Lincoln during his first term of office. Radical Republicans were Protestants. Thanksgiving was a Protestant feast day. Lincoln appeased his Republican allies by declaring the day a US Holiday.

Well, they would have probably felt good about it because they invented it .


Whomever wrote the above answer is sorely mistaken and not surprisingly, misinformed.
While there are many different nations with people who have different beliefs and attitudes, the subject of Thanksgiving is not a happy one for most American Indians, as you might guess. Most people I know have adapted the patriotic songs and stories of "Americans", such as "Land of the Pilgrim's pride" , to include indians.

Quite frankly, the stories told in elementary school history and social studies are not true. The first Americans are not happy that more than 60 million of their ancestors were wiped out. The Jewish holocaust (=bad Nazi, in public opinion) was nearly 6 million. The American holocaust (=good American) was over 60 million.

For my family, Thanksgiving was a time when everyone had time off of work/school, so we'd get together as a family, but we also remembered our ancestors who died in the name of the European God. Thanksgiving, for us, is a way of life, every day. It is not just one day where we feast. Columbus Day, as you might imagine, is not celebrated, either.

Myles Standish was an English military officer hired by the Pilgrims as military adviser for Plymouth Colony. John Carver was chosen as the colony's first governor.

How pilgrims lived was they were fed off of the rivers for water, and the men and boys hunted fish, animals, and other things. The woman gathered things such as berries, and edible plants. Then when the pilgrims rode the Mayflower [a ship] and then met indians who taught them how to grow plants, then came thanksgiving.

During the first winter in the New World, the Mayflower colonists suffered greatly from diseases like scurvy which could be cured with lemons or the vitamin C. 45 of the 102 emigrants died the first winter and were buried on Cole's Hill.

You could keep an unopened can in the refrigerator for several month or possibly longer. I'd still use the "best by" date on the can as a guide for shelf life. Keep an eye on the condition of the can because the increase in humidity could make the can start to rust.

In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states. It wasn't until 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.

Thanksgiving has no religious significance and no one religion.

Although turkey has become the de facto main course for Thanksgiving dinner, there is no evidence that turkey was eaten at the first Thanksgiving meal between the Pilgrims and Indians. They most likely ate venison (deer) and seafood. It is possible that turkey was on the menu, but it would have just been another bird that was shot the same as a duck or a goose. It would have been cooked differently. More than likely the turkey would have been roasted over a fire or boiled. It certainly would not have been deep fried in oil or stuffed and oven roasted as it is today.

So how did we get the idea that you have turkey and cranberry and such on Thanksgiving? It was because the Victorians prepared Thanksgiving that way. And they're the ones who made Thanksgiving a national holiday, beginning in 1863, when Abe Lincoln issued his presidential Thanksgiving proclamations...two of them: one to celebrate Thanksgiving in August, a second one in November. Before Lincoln Americans outside New England did not usually celebrate the holiday. (The Pilgrims, incidentally, didn't become part of the holiday until late in the nineteenth century. Until then, Thanksgiving was simply a day of thanks, not a day to remember the Pilgrims.)

They held the feast to thank God for helping them survive through the harsh winter.

It is possible that the pilgrims danced on Thanksgiving, but it is not known for sure.

Thanksgiving took place because when all the troops came home they would have a gathering. And a gathering is what the people called Thanksgiving before they came up with the name "Thanksgiving". So, when they founded the name Thanksgiving, they called it Thanksgiving instead of a gathering.

I hope that helped! :)

thanksgiving is all about giving thanks to God for all his blessings. Originally, the pioneers that started it gave thanks to God for keeping them safe as they travelled and for keeping them safe from the Indians who eventually became their best friends. They also gave thanks for the food He gave them when they needed it. Hope that helps! i really do.

At the time of the first Thanksgiving, there was no parade. There wasn't even a city to hold a parade.

Because they had survived the harsh winter and were giving thanks to God for helping them survive it.
I think they did because they were the Indians made thanksgiving so they decided to do it as well

Obon (お盆?) or just Bon (盆?) is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the departed (deceased) spirits of one's ancestors. This Buddhist custom has evolved into a family reunion holiday during which people return to ancestral family places and visit and clean their ancestors' graves, and when the spirits of ancestors are supposed to revisit the household altars. It has been celebrated in Japan for more than 500 years and traditionally includes a dance, known as Bon-Odori.

There are no records mentioning any foods for the 1621 Thanksgiving feast other than venison (deer meet) and fowl. Some believe they probably also had seafood such as lobster and cod, and swan, duck, and turkey meat. The feast would have had more meats than vegetables, which were less bountiful, but the vegetables served would probably have been pumpkins, turnips, peas, onion, and beans. It is likely they also had fruits; possibly plums and grapes. It is doubtful they had sweet desserts, as more than likely, their supplies of sugar brought over with them would have been gone by the time the feast was held. There are some records of the first Thanksgiving celebration that it was a three-day event.

The pilgrims arrived in America on November 11, 1620 (November 21 on the modern calendar) and made their first landing at Plymouth Rock on November 13. They lived in their ship until March, 1621.
they came in 1620

The Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys always play games on Thanksgiving Day with no fixed opponents. Since 2006, a third game has been played on the holiday. Football on Thanksgiving is a long held American tradition, dating back to 1876 when Yale played Princeton.

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade wasn't canceled permanently, but was temporarily suspended for three years in the 1940s, due to the US involvement in World War 2. There was no parade in 1942-1944; Macy's resumed the tradition in 1945.

it depends on when last year was if 2009 17

The president that declared Thanksgiving is George Bush

cause his family was Indian and he was Pilgrim so the family together made a holiday named thanksgiving......

Hope that answers your question