Thanksgiving

Historians long considered the first Thanksgiving to have taken place in 1621, when the
Mayflower pilgrims who founded the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts sat down for a
three-day meal with the Wampanoag. However, the meal wasn’t the meaningful symbol of
peace that it was later portrayed to be—rather, it was likely just a routine English harvest
celebration.

Early illustrations of the first

Thanksgiving show a friendly
meal between the Pilgrims and
the Wampanoag in 1621. But
that rosy depiction masks a
violent history: Within years, the
colonists launched a war on their
neighboring tribes and ultimately
massacred them.

How Thanksgiving became a modern holiday

Over the years, the word “thanksgiving” has changed in meaning. Originally an English
tradition, days of thanksgiving typically were marked by religious services to give thanks to
God, or to celebrate a bountiful harvest.

The first recorded religious thanksgiving day in Plymouth took place a full two years after
the 1621 feast. It celebrated the end of a two-month drought, according to 1621: A New
Look at Thanksgiving. Later thanksgivings celebrated military victories over Native
Americans.

After Lincoln’s proclamation, Thanksgiving typically took place on the last Thursday in
November. But in 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to move it up a week in
hopes of allowing more time for Christmas shopping and stimulate the post-Depression
economy.

Thanksgiving Day is a day celebrated in the US so people can give thanks for what they
have, on the last thursday of November, date stablishes by the US congress in 1941.

But frankly now a days its and excuse for most Families and friends to get together for a
meal, which traditionally includes a roast turkey, stuffing, potatoes, vegetables, cranberry
sauce, gravy, and pumpkin pie.

Why pumpkin pie its an important part in every thanksgiving meal?

Well because pumpkin was supposed to be ine of the gifts the native americans brought to
the first settlers, they also taught them the many uses for pumpkin that led to the inclusion
of pumpkin on the first thanksgiving dinner, and now a days on the american thanksgiving
as a pie.

Why turkey?
The story goes that the first Thanksgiving dinner was held in 1621 when the Plymouth
settlers decided to thank the Wampanoag Indians for helping them survive the harsh
winter by teaching them how to hunt, fish and farm the land. At this dinner it is believed
that the Indians brought deer and the settlers gave poultry, among which was the turkey,
however some historians say that they were probably ducks or geese.

what does apple pie symbolize?

apple pie as used in the phrase "as American as apple pie" describes something as being
"typically American". In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, apple pie became a symbol
of American prosperity and national pride.

apple pie as we know it first originated in England, where it developed from culinary
influences from France, the Netherlands, and even the Ottoman Empire. In fact, apple
trees weren't even native to North America until the Europeans arrived.

thanksgiving meaning
Thanksgiving is commonly known as a way to commemorate the colonial Pilgrims' harvest
meal that they shared with Wampanoag Indians (who "were key to the survival of the
colonists during the first year they arrived in 1620")

The customs and traditions of England, from Anglo-Saxon harvest festivals to the
thanksgiving celebrations of the Reformation provide the origins of the quintessential
American celebration.