The fourth week of November every year is when we celebrate Thanksgiving. This holiday is to honor the settlers an native americans that came to together for a feast, and to give thanks for everything we have in life.
It all started in 1620, the Mayflower (carrying 101 people) was traveling through the atlantic ocean for 66 days. These people on the ship were a group of English Protestants called Puritans(or pilgrims) they wanted to leave the Church of England. They were supposed to settle where New York City is today, but wind weather caused them settle in Cape Cod, Masseuchusets. As the puritans prepared for winter they collected anything they could find. One day Squanto( the leader of the abankaki, and tisquantum people) visited the Puriatans. He knew English and had met other settlers before. Squanto helped them grow corn, and use fish to fertilize their fields. After several meetings the native people and the settlers agreed that they join together to protect each other from other tribes.
In that fall they helped each other hunt for a harvest celebration. The English, an native men, women and children all ate together. They had deer, corn, shellfish, and roasted meat. This very different from our meal today. They also sang, danced, and played ball games. Even though prayers and thanks were most likely done at the 1621 harvest, the first religious one happened in 1623. The peace between the Native americans and the English only lasted for a generation. Since 1970, many native people gather at the statue of Massasoit in Massachusetts each Thanksgiving to remember their ancestors and the power of the Wampanoag.
The thanksgiving we know today started in the 19th century. In 1846 Sarah Hale who is a editor of a magazine called Godey’s Lady’s Book, capained for a annual Thankgiving Holiday. It was not until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln declared two national Thanksgivings. One in August to honor the battle of gettyburg in the civil war. The other was in November and it was to give thanks. The second on is the one we celebrate today.
Thankgiving eventually started to become the thanksgiving we know today with traditions like turkey, giving thanks, and traveling to meet our families. Thankgiving is a holiday that we all cherish, and come together as a family in. I go to New York every year to have Thankgiving with my dad's side of my family. Thankgiving was some English and Native America people having a harvest dinner, and know it is a holiday that we all share.
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/first-thanksgiving
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I usally go to New York for Thanksgiving because my dad's side of the family lives there. I think that the history of thanksgiving is good.