Thanksgiving

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In the United States, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. Many Americans believe that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, when the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people shared a three-day feast together. Actually, the Pilgrims did not view this as a Thanksgiving celebration, but more as a celebration of the harvest and a token of appreciation. The Wampanoag played a pivotal role in the Pilgrims' survival of their first winter in the New World. Thanksgiving did not become an official American holiday until the time of the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln thought it was a way to bring people together.