I have to say I'm quite ignorant on what Thanksgiving Day is in the US? I assume it is something about a dinner the pilgrims had with the Native Indian American's before or after they slaughtered them?
What else is it about?
What do you do on Thanksgiving apart from eat a lovely big dinner? Do you get presents? Are there songs you sing? Do you have to go to church that morning?
Are candied yams sweet potatoes?
Thanks- i'm very curious about it
2006-11-22 21:03:22 · 4 answers · asked by Personal Angel 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a holiday to give thanks to what we have. Its a time to spend with family. My family will get together for lunch at my Dad's brothers (my uncles) house first and hang out there, watch some football and then in the evening we will go to my mom's sisters (my aunts) house for another get together.
2006-11-22 22:28:17 · answer #1 · answered by Andrea 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the 1st American Thanksgiving exchange into celebrated in 1621, to commemorate the harvest reaped by utilising skill of the Plymouth Colony after a harsh winter. In that 300 and sixty 5 days Governor William Bradford proclaimed an afternoon of thanksgiving. The colonists celebrated it as a time-honored English harvest dinner social gathering, to which they invited the close by Wampanoag Indians. Days of thanksgiving have been celebrated in the direction of the colonies after fall harvests. All 13 colonies did not, besides the undeniable fact that, have a good time Thanksgiving on a similar time as until October 1777. George Washington exchange into the time-honored president to declare the trip, in 1789. a clean national trip by utilising the mid–1800s, many states got here across a Thanksgiving day trip. meanwhile, the poet and editor Sarah J. Hale had began lobbying for a countrywide Thanksgiving day trip. for the size of the Civil warfare, President Abraham Lincoln, searching for a manner you may unite the country, stated the self-discipline with Hale. In 1863 he gave his Thanksgiving Proclamation, asserting the final Thursday in November an afternoon of thanksgiving. In 1939, 1940, and 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt, searching for to extend the Christmas looking season, proclaimed Thanksgiving the 0.33 Thursday in November. Controversy observed, and Congress surpassed a joint determination in 1941 decreeing that Thanksgiving will ought to fall on the fourth Thursday of November, the situation it keeps to be
2016-10-12 23:19:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I assume Americans celebrate Thanksgiving like the UK celebrate Christmas, with out the presents, but with lots of food, and visiting relatives and generally catching up.
Happy Thanksgiving Day.
2006-11-23 01:02:53 · answer #3 · answered by Jay Jay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignorant,yes agreed.
The killing was wrong of course,but it did go both ways.
Presents? Usually a drunk relative telling revealing a family secret followed by screaming,crying,and storming out.
When you cook a sweet potato it does become Candied yams usually with a few other additions.
2006-11-22 21:18:29 · answer #4 · answered by onionheadinvancouver 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋