Thanksgiving Day is a traditional North American holiday to give thanks for the things that has at the conclusion of the harvest season. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States; on the other hand in Canada it is on the second Monday of October. [from Wikipedia]
After Christophorus Columbus reached America, Europeans started calling America “a new world,” and then Europeans went ahead with a colony project. Thanksgiving Day is generally believed that Pilgrim Fathers’, who immigrated to Plymouth Colony in Commonwealth of Massachusetts from UK, first memorial event of the harvest. It was a harsh winter in Plymouth when they reached there in 1620; there were a number of dead people, but they could live because of help by Wampanoag Indian who lived near them. Autumn in 1621 particularly caused a lot of crops, so Pilgrim Fathers invited Indians and they had entertainment thanks to the grace of God together. It was the first time of the Thanksgiving celebration. However, they didn’t think it was Thanksgiving because settlers from England and Wampanoag Indians had their own tradition of harvest festivals each other.
The first Thanksgiving which hold in Plymouth Colony was hold a service at the church rather than a dinner party in 1623. It has strong nuance religiously to thanks for God.
In the United State, by the mid–1800s, many states observed a Thanksgiving holiday. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, looking for ways to unite the nation, discussed the subject with Hale. In 1863 he gave his Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday in November a day of thanksgiving.
After Christophorus Columbus reached America, Europeans started calling America “a new world,” and then Europeans went ahead with a colony project. Thanksgiving Day is generally believed that Pilgrim Fathers’, who immigrated to Plymouth Colony in Commonwealth of Massachusetts from UK, first memorial event of the harvest. It was a harsh winter in Plymouth when they reached there in 1620; there were a number of dead people, but they could live because of help by Wampanoag Indian who lived near them. Autumn in 1621 particularly caused a lot of crops, so Pilgrim Fathers invited Indians and they had entertainment thanks to the grace of God together. It was the first time of the Thanksgiving celebration. However, they didn’t think it was Thanksgiving because settlers from England and Wampanoag Indians had their own tradition of harvest festivals each other.
The first Thanksgiving which hold in Plymouth Colony was hold a service at the church rather than a dinner party in 1623. It has strong nuance religiously to thanks for God.
In the United State, by the mid–1800s, many states observed a Thanksgiving holiday. During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, looking for ways to unite the nation, discussed the subject with Hale. In 1863 he gave his Thanksgiving Proclamation, declaring the last Thursday in November a day of thanksgiving.
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