Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in the United States to commemorate a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.

Correction:

Thanksgiving is a North American holiday celebrated by the United States and Canada. Brazil does not celebrate it because it is not part of their traditions.

Thanksgiving in the U. S. does NOT commemorate the Pilgrim's feast at Plymouth in 1621. Thanksgiving is a holiday to express thanks to God, friends and family for the blessings of the previous year. The holiday was first celebrated in New England as Puritan religious observation declared in various years in response to "God's favorable Providence". It evolved over the years into a quasi-secular, annual New England autumnal celebration. It did not become a national holiday until Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November an annual day of thanksgiving in 1863, noting that this should be marked as "a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens". (The date was changed to the 4th Thursday in November by Franklin Roosevelt in 1941.) The 1621 Plymouth feast did not become connected in the popular imagination with the holiday until the 20th century, when it became a popular story to tell school children.

The first Canadian Thanksgiving was celebrated by the explorer, Martin Frobisher, who in 1578 held a feast in Newfoundland to give thanks for surviving an attempt to search for a Northwest Passage to the Pacific. Various Thanksgiving celebrations were declared to celebrate special events until 1879, when it became an annual holiday. The date changed several times until Parliament declared the second Monday in October the Thanksgiving holiday in 1957.

The colonial power that settled Brazil, Portugal, shares along with England and the rest of Europe a long tradition of various harvest festivals and feasts of thanksgiving. The holiday simply never evolved in Brazil as it did in North America.

The first thanksgiving was in 1621, so this year(2014) it is 393 years ago.

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Using the NIV translation, "thanksgiving" occurs 25 times.

Leviticus 7:13, 15;

Ezra 3:11;

Nehemiah 11:17, 12:8, 24, 27, 46;

Psalms 42:4; 69:30; 95:2; 100:4; 147:7;

Isaiah 51:3;

Jeremiah 30:19;

Jonah 2:9;

1 Corinthians 10:16; 14:16;

2 Corinthians 4:15; 9:11;

Ephesians 5:4;

Philippians 4:6;

1 Timothy 2:1; 4:3, and 4.

Thanksgiving Day is always on the fourth Thursday of November

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A writer, Sarah Josepha Hale, who is best known for the poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb", is credited for persuading Abraham Lincoln to name Thanksgiving as a national holiday. Lincoln officially designated the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving in 1863.

Actually the support for this came from a wider group of people, not just a single individual. Evangelical Christians pressed US President Lincoln to make the Protestant feast day of Thanks Giving a national holiday.

If you eat turkey on thanksgiving you are living a lie the pilgrims and Indians ate cod and other fish clams and crabs they ate a feast in victory of killing majority of a rival tribe next thanksgiving ask for lobster

-Lauren Maxwell

Matt Lauer, co-anchor of "Today" on NBC News, has been selected as the 2009 host of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade on NBC.

Yes, Abraham Lincoln introduced Thanksgiving as a national holiday in America on October 3, 1863.

yes they had chocolate

it is celebrated every 2nd Monday in October

You eat turkey

You are celebrating about the good harvest of the foods

You are also thanking the farmers

(If you know other facts may you please edit this answer)

The first Thanksgiving game was between the Chicago Bears and Detroit Lions. 26,000 Detroit fans packed the University of Detroit Stadium, and a coast-to-coast radio audience was listening. But the local fans were disappointed: the Bears won the game 19-16. The Bears edged out the Lions 19-16

The Bears edged out the Lions 19-16

Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States because of the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and the Native Americans.

We celebrate Thanksgiving so that we can remember where our forefathers came from and the hardships they had to face. We also celebrate Thanksgiving in order to be thankful for the wonderful things we have today. We celebrate thanksgiving so we could say thank you to god and the pilgrims from saving our country to going down to the ground.

Because the wampanoug Indians taught the pilgrims how to hunt and plant seeds and they and a plentiful harvest so they celebrated the wonderful harvest and to give thanks to the Indians and also because gorge Washington made it a national day

Because you give hope and joy.

1876

The Pilgrims landed in America in the month of thanks giving.

the Wampanoags were the ones who shared the first thanskgiving with the pilgrims. if it wasn't for them the harvest would have failed and we wouldn't be here.

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The pilgrims gave thanks to the plague that took out most of the Native Americans in Mass.

They eat and visit with family just like we do now!

No It was a thanksgiving event last year you would be able to store turkey meat in it and then after it would be full u could heal more hitpoints damage