USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

FIRST THANKSGIVING HISTORY FACTS FOODS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What was the first Thanksgiving?
A
a meal that consisted of lobster, bass, clams, oysters, ducks, geese, and swans
B
a tuber brought from South America to Europe by the Spanish in 1570
C
a mission that four men were sent on by William Bradford in 1621
D
an autumn harvest celebration of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1621, the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag shared an autumn harvest feast that is acknowledged today as one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations in the colonies. For more than two centuries, days of thanksgiving were celebrated by individual colonies and states.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although prayers and thanks were probably offered at the 1621 harvest gathering, the first recorded religious Thanksgiving Day in Plymouth happened two years later in 1623. On this occasion, the colonists gave thanks to God for rain after a two-month drought.

Detailed explanation-3: -To celebrate the first harvest at Plymouth, Governor William Bradford and the other settlers invited the Wampanoags for a celebratory feast in November 1621, now remembered as the first Thanksgiving.

Detailed explanation-4: -Americans model their holiday on a 1621 harvest feast shared between English colonists and the Wampanoag. Canadians trace their earliest thanksgiving to 1578 when a Martin Frobisher-led expedition celebrated safe passage.

Detailed explanation-5: -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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