THANKSGIVING

THANKSGIVING

• In 1621 November
• For Americans their thanksgiving food was cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and roast turkey with turkey

PILGRIMS

• The pilgrims real names were English colonist
• To pilgrims thanksgiving was a day of prayer not feast
• They thank God of a good harvest season

INDIANS

• There names were Native Americans
• NA saw thanksgiving as a day of mourning
• And a time to give up land for gifts
• They saw it as the beginning of their end

LOCATION OF THANKSGIVING

• The first thanksgiving dinner was held in the present day Massachusetts
• And it was in 1621

MYTHS

• Some thought the pilgrim held the first thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving was about family
• Pilgrims ate turkey
• They lived in log cabins
• And all of this is totally all myths

FACTS

• 200 years later after the thanksgiving of the pilgrims Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday in November as a national day of thanksgiving
• In 2001 the U.S post office issued a thanksgiving stamp
• 3 towns in U.S toke their name from the thanksgiving dinner like Turkey, Texas, and turkey creek