Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States and Canada to give thanks for the harvest. The origins of the holiday come from the Plymouth colonists sharing a feast with the Wampanoag Indians in 1621 to celebrate their first successful harvest in the New World. Today, Thanksgiving is typically celebrated with family meals that include turkey, potatoes, corn, cranberries, and pumpkin pie. Parades and American football games are also common traditions on Thanksgiving Day.

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2. Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday
celebrated primarily in the United States and
Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of
the harvest and of the preceding year. Several other
places around the world observe similar
celebrations.
It's celebrated on the fourth Thursday
of November in the United States
and on the second Monday of
October in Canada. Thanksgiving
has its historical roots in religious
and cultural traditions, and has long
been celebrated in a secular manner
as well.

3. Thanksgiving day's story
In 1620, a boat filled with more than one hundred people
sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the New World. This
religious group had begun to question the beliefs of the Church
of England and they wanted to separate from it. The Pilgrims
settled in what is now the state of Massachusetts. Their first
winter in the New World was difficult.
They had arrived too late to grow
many crops, and without fresh food, half the
colony died from disease. The following
spring the Iroquois Indians taught them how
to grow corn (maize), a new food for the
colonists. They showed them other crops to
grow in the unfamiliar soil and how to hunt
and fish.
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4. In the autumn of 1621, bountiful crops of corn, barley,
beans and pumpkins were harvested. The colonists had
much to be thankful for, so a feast was planned. They invited
the local Indian chief and90 Indians. The Indians brought
deer to roast with the turkeys and other wild game offered by
the colonists. The colonists had learned how to cook
cranberries and different kinds of corn and squash dishes
from the Indians. To this first Thanksgiving, the Indians had
even brought popcorn.

5. In following years, many of the original colonists
celebrated the autumn harvest with a feast of thanks. After the
United States became an independent country, Congress
recommended one yearly day of thanksgiving for the whole
nation to celebrate. George Washington suggested the date
November 26 as Thanksgiving Day. Then in 1863, at the end of
a long and bloody civil war, Abraham Lincoln asked all
Americans to set aside the last Thursday in November as a day
of thanksgiving

6. Canada
Thanksgiving occurring on the second Monday in October, is
an annual Canadian holiday to give thanks at the close of the
harvest season. Although the original act of Parliament
references God and the holiday is celebrated in churches, the
holiday is mostly celebrated in a secular manner.
Thanksgiving is a statutory holiday in
all provinces in Canada, except for
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
While businesses may remain open
in these provinces, the holiday is
nonetheless recognized and
celebrated regardless of its status

7. United States
Thanksgiving is a statutory
holiday in all provinces in
Canada, except for New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
While businesses may
remain open in these
provinces, the holiday is
nonetheless recognized and
celebrated regardless of its
status

8. Thanksgiving day's parades

9. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is an annual
parade presented by the U.S. chain store business Macy's.
The tradition started in 1924, tying it for the second-oldest
Thanksgiving parade in the United States along with
America's Thanksgiving Parade in Detroit, with both
parades four years younger than the 6abc Dunkin' Donuts.
Thanksgiving Day Parade in
Philadelphia. The three-hour
Macy's event is held in New York
City starting at 9:00 a.m. EST on
Thanksgiving Day, and has been
televised nationally on NBC since
1952

10. American football on Thanksgiving day
American football is one of the many traditions in
American culture that is associated with Thanksgiving Day.
Virtually every level of football, from amateur and high school
to college and the NFL (and even the CFL on
Canadian Thanksgiving), plays football on Thanksgiving Day
(Thursday) or the immediately following holiday weekend
(Friday, Saturday and Sunday).

11. Turkey Typical food
Pumpkin pie
Corn
Today the traditional
thanksgiving meal is
similar to the first. They
eat roast turkey with
cranberry sauce,
potatoes, corn and
pumpkin pie.