Thanksgiving Tradition Origin, Thanksgiving United States Wikipedia

A distinctive american tradition in thanksgiving day on the fourth thursday in november.

Thanksgiving celebration at school. The tale as it is told in grade schools is a legend a mythologized version that downplays some of the bleaker history of how thanksgiving became an american national holiday. The thanksgiving tradition there is rooted in the nations founding as a colony of the american colonization society in 1821 by free people of color from the united states. Abraham lincoln declared a national day of thanksgiving in 1863.

President roosevelt established the fourth thursday in november as thanksgiving day. In 1621 the very first thanksgiving holiday was celebrated by the plymouth settlers also known as pilgrims in massachusetts. Well we have the first detroit lions owner ga.

Although recognized throughout the country thanksgiving is practiced chiefly by americo liberians descendants of liberias original african american settlers. Since this date thanksgiving has been observed annually in the united states. President abraham lincoln resumed the tradition of thanksgiving proclamations in 1863.

Traditionally held to have originated in the plymouth massachusetts colony in 1621 it was first proclaimed a national holiday by president abraham lincoln in 1863. He saw it as a way to get people to his games. The holiday continues to be a day for americans to gather for a day of feasting.

The legend of the first thanksgiving in 1620 the legend goes a boat filled with more than one hundred people sailed across the atlantic ocean to settle in the new world. Thanksgiving which occurs on the fourth thursday in november is based on the colonial pilgrims 1621 harvest meal. The first macys thanksgiving day parade was held in 1924.

It is sometimes called american thanksgiving outside the united states to distinguish it from the canadian holiday of the same nameit originated as a harvest festival and to this day the centerpiece of thanksgiving celebrations remains thanksgiving dinner. Cbs was the first on the bandwagon. Richards to thank for the tradition of thanksgiving football.