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Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?

There are many reasons to celebrate Thanksgiving

  • The Harvest - for the past 6,000 years, ever since humanity discovered agriculture, human societies have celebrated the harvest. Globalization and industrialization has made modern man less dependent on the sesonal harvest, but we still depend upon the earth to grant us our food.
  • National Unity - it was President Abraham Lincoln that first declared Thanksgiving a national holiday as one more way to unite the North and the South after the War.
    spiritual renewal - most religions teach the spiritual benefits of expressing gratitude toward God for all our good fortune.
  • National Pride - although Plymouth colony was not the first English colony in North America, the story of Plymouth colony makes a far better origin story for the United States than the failed colony at Jamestown, Virginia.
  • Native American Appriciation - twice a year, Americans are reminded of the pivotal role of the Native Americans in their own history, (see also: Why we should celebrate Columbus Day). It should never be forgotten that when the Native Americans discovered the Plymouth colonists freezing and starving, they taught them how to plant food in the New World (see also: Who was Squanto).

In the early fall of 1621 the 53 surviving pilgrims celebrated their successful harvest, as was the English custom. During this time ,"many of the Indianscoming...amongst the rest their great king Massasoit, with some 90 men." The 1621 celebration is remembered as The First Thanksgiving. In Plymouth, Pilgrims did not call this harvest festival Thanksgiving, although, they did give thanks to God. To them, a day of thanksgiving was purely religious. The first recorded religious day of thanksgiving was held in 1623 in response to a providential rainfall. The religious day of thanksgiving and the harvest festival involved a single event


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