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Why Do Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving?
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2016-11-25 | 05:37
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Why Do Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving is a national holiday in The US since 1863, families across the US come together to mark the occasion a month before Christmas.
When is Thanksgiving?
Although it was Abraham Lincoln that first declared a "day of our annual Thanksgiving", it wasn't until Franklin D Roosevelt's presidency that the holiday was officially set on the fourth Thursday in November.
The holiday had been celebrated infrequently up until the 19th century, usually after major events – George Washington proclaimed a Thanksgiving in 1789 to celebrate the new country's freedom from British rule.
When was the first Thanksgiving?
The first Thanksgiving is normally believed to have occurred in 1621 when Puritan pilgrims who first settled in New World to escape persecution in Europe arrived on the Mayflower.
Their first harvest had failed and were, according to legend, saved by the Wampanoag Indians, who believed they may be useful allies in their war against a rival tribe – the Narragansett.
It was unlikely to have been called a Thanksgiving at the time but the name caught on and there were occasional celebrations of the event over the course of the next centuries – usually after settlers had either fended off an Indian attack or cruelly massacred a Native American settlement themselves.
Why do people celebrate Thanksgiving?
To many Americans, Thanksgiving represents an important part of America's founding myth.
The Mayflower pilgrims were one of the first groups to settle up a permanent, surviving colony in modern-day Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Many previous attempts had ended in failure – most notably the Roanoke Colony which disappeared or was abandoned sometime before 1590.
But to people of Native American descent, the holiday is one of sad reflection on the injustices which were perpetrated against them in the years that followed.
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