SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FIRST THANKSGIVING HISTORY FACTS FOODS
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1863, with the country torn by the Civil War, Hale’s campaign finally got people’s attention. That September, she put her thanksgiving message into an editorial and wrote to President Abraham Lincoln, urging him to make Thanksgiving Day a fixed national festival.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hale’s letter to President Abraham Lincoln on Sept. 28, 1863, in which she requested Thanksgiving be made a national holiday to unify the nation in the time of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Without the dogged activism of Sarah Josepha Hale-a novelist, poet, and the editor of “Godey’s Lady’s Book, ” a lifestyle magazine with an impressive pre-Civil War circulation of 150, 000-Thanksgiving may never have become the national holiday it is today.