Thanksgiving Day first started in New England. It was for thanking God for the abundant harvest of crops.
This is usually somewhere in late fall when the crops have been harvested. People from many parts of the world
have been holding some kind of harvest festivals for thousands of years. They just called it by different names, for
example :
U.K. - Harvest Festival UK
China - mid-autumn festival
Korea - Chu Suk, or also known as the Harvest Moon Festival.
India - Indian Harvest Festival (find out what it's called)
American Thanksgiving Day is probably a harvest festival at the beginning too. The first Thanksgiving Day in America
was on December 4, 1619. At that time, it was a fully religious thing. A group of 38 English settlers arrived at
Berkeley Plantation via the James river (near Charles City, Va) on December 4, 1619 and their charter required that
the day of their arrival be observed yearly as a day of thanksgiving to God.
In New England, the first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in Plymouth in
1621 by the Pilgrims together with 91 Indians. The Pilgrims first set
foot at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. The first winter in
Massachusetts was really bad and 46 out of the original 102 Pilgrims
died. It is believed that the Indians helped the Pilgrims through that
difficult period and without them, the Pilgrims would not have survived.
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