can someone please explain what thanks giving and Independence day is.?

Question

I'm from Britain and although i know they are holidays for Americans, i have never known what they are really about or the history of them, all i really know if that it is traditional to eat turkey, can someone please tell me what these holidays are for and how they come about, and if they are important to you, thank you for taking the time for any explanations.

Answer 1

Independence Day: (Most of us just call it The 4th of July)
This day celebrates the day the 13 original states claimed independence from (you guys!) England, thus creating the United States. It's a day of patriotism, waving our flag and showing it's colors, Red White and Blue. We celebrate with parades picnics and fireworks. It doesn't involve negative feelings toward Great Britain, although it probably did it the beginning.

Thanksgiving: When the pilgrims came to America, they faced a harsh winter without stored crops and knowing the land. The Native Americans (used to be called Indians) helped them survive. So the next year at harvest time they invited the Native Americans to a feast of thanks to them for their help and God for the bounty of the harvest. It became a tradition. Today I think for most Americans today it's Turkey Day (the traditional main dish) and a day to get together with extended family. We eat humongous meals with traditional family dishes such as sweet potatoes, Turkey stuffing, cranberry sauce (depends on the family.) Many families also watch football that day too, not me.

Answer 2

Thanksgiving takes place in November and supposedly it was started when the first "pilgrims" who came to America and the Native Americans who were already here shared food together to make it through the winter. (That's the polite Americanized version). Some people do not believe that it what happened but that's the traditional theory that is taught to us when we are young. Today, it's a day to get together with family or friends and share a big meal together (usually turkey but not always) Some families or groups tell each other what they are thankful for.

Independence Day is celebrated on the 4th of July and is a celebration of when the continent (North America) became free from British rule after the Revolutionary War. Most businesses are closed down for the day and people just enjoy the vacation day. Hope this helps a little.

Answer 3

Thanksgiving is a US holiday, sometime in November I think. It is to celibrate the survival of the Pilgrim Fathers after the first winter spent in what is now the US. Local natives helped them with finding and trapping food from the forest. A staple of which was wild turkeys, hence the tradition of eating turkey on thanksgiving day
Independance day celibrates independance from the Brits, after the war of independance. It is held on the 4th of July.
Try looking these two holidays up in an encyclopdia.
They are both US holidays, and are only celibrated by Americans, so have no significance to me, as I am not a US citizen.

Answer 4

The statement of Independence isn't a criminal record. "'Our writer has endowed us with particular inalienable rights" those being life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As you need to have seen from the verses above, that writer says that an unborn fetus is a guy or woman." word how the founders % the word writer. they did no longer say God. Why do you think it relatively is? in case you do in comparison to abortion, have not got one, yet you haven't any longer any precise to stress different women people to hold toddlers in the event that they do no longer desire to. what number toddlers have you ever observed so a ways? it relatively is meant to be the alternative.

Answer 5

Ask the Question in the American Holidays area. Aussies dont have either thanksgiving or independence day....unless you count having it on DVD.

Answer 6

Independence day is when we celebrate the signing of our Declaration of Independence. It is usually celebrated by picnics, barbecues, parades and fireworks at night.

Thanksgiving is a "fall harvest" festival celebrating the survival of the pilgrims through their first year and a successful harvest that would see them through another winter. People tend to celebrate this by eating a big turkey dinner.

Answer 7

Thanksgiving is a time for family to get together, goes back to the pilgrims eating turkey with the native americans I believe...

Answer 8

independence day is the day we celebrate victory in the american revouloution. we celebrate freedom from british rule.
we celebrate with fireworks, hot dogs, hamburgers and we wear red white and blue. the ground beef and packaged hotdogs usually get sold out pretty quick.
thanks giving is when we celebrate the english settlers survival after the winter when they landed at plymouth rock in the new england region of america. the british colonies were founded and that led to revouloution. mainly due to taxation without representation.

Answer 9

All i can tell you about the holiday in it's present age from it's beginning are what the symbolism refers to. It has always been for the condition of the heart, soul and mind on how to care for the person you are and the good work of lesson planning to learn is to consume

Answer 10

Thanksgiving started when the settlers from England came to America and made friends with some Indians and they had a feast with the indians who showed them how to cook the native vegetables. They were christian settlers and they were thankful to God to be alive and to have made it here alive and to have a meal and make freinds. independence day celebrates americas independence from england and we stopped paying tax to them and won a war against them.We became free from them and their laws. I celebrate thanksgiving everyday ,the meal is not important to me but I enjoy it. Independence day is nice,it is a patriotic day to be thankful for freedom.