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- Thanksgiving Day, annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people.
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Apr 19, 2024 · Thanksgiving Day, annual national holiday in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the European colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people.
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The Plymouth Colony was founded by a group comprised of Puritan separatists (the pilgrims) and Anglican settlers who had been hired or invited to join them by the merchant adventurer Thomas Weston (l. 1584 - c. 1647) who secured them a patent from the Virginia Company of London and rented them the Mayflower to establish a profitable colony in Virgi...
A second harvest festival is mentioned by Bradford (given above in Book II. ch. 4 from Of Plymouth Plantation) as taking place in 1623 but no mention is made of any other. Mourt's Relation, and another of Winslow's works, Good News from New England (published 1624), helped encourage the migration of more English to North America. Between 1630-1636,...
Mourt's Relation and Of Plymouth Plantationonly became available to the general public in 1841 and 1856, respectively, and so played no part in the First National Proclamation of Thanksgiving in 1777 which had nothing to do with the 1621 event and was intended as a solemn day of worship and praise of God. It was set for Thursday, the 18th of Decemb...
Although the 1621 event is cited as the inspiration for the Thanksgiving holiday in the modern era, thanksgiving celebrations, up through and including Kennedy's proclamation, have been encouraged and observed in the United States for reasons having little to do with the accounts in the primary documents. In the 17th century, thanksgiving days were...
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Oct 27, 2009 · Getty Images. Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, and Thanksgiving 2024 occurs on Thursday, November 28. In 1621, the Plymouth colonists from England and the Native...
For American culture, the story of the Pilgrims, including their “first Thanksgiving” feast with the local Native Americans, has become the ruling creation narrative, celebrated each November along with turkey, pumpkin pie, and football games.
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Thanksgiving Day . Thanksgiving Day, U.S. and Canadian holiday. In the U.S. Thanksgiving is modeled on a harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people in 1621. It is intended to celebrate the blessings of the past year.
Dec 18, 2009 · The first Thanksgiving. In the Fall of 1621, the Pilgrims famously shared a harvest feast with the Pokanokets; the meal is now considered the basis for the Thanksgiving holiday. It...
But the story of Thanksgiving is more than turkey and Pilgrims. It involves two groups of people - colonists who were aboard the Mayflower and the Native American people whose land they chose to settle on.