Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, is a holiday celebrated in the United States on the forth Thursday in November. It became an official federal holiday in 1863, when, during the civil war president Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of “thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent father who dwelled in the heavens”, to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November. The event that Americans commonly call the “First Thanksgiving” was celebrated by the pilgrims after their first harvest in the new world in 1621. This feast lasted three days, and it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 pilgrims. The New England colonists were accustomed to regularly celebrating “thanksgiving”- days of prayer thanking god for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.  

         

Thing I’m thankful for:

1.       Family

2.       Friends

3.       Life

4.       Food

5.       Games

6.       Books

7.       Videos

8.       Music

9.       Online friends

10.   Computer

11.   Hope

12.   Opportunity