How Did Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving

“On the fourth Thursday of November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, a national holiday honoring the early settlers and their harvest feast known as the first Thanksgiving. Long before settlers came to the East Coast of the United States, the area was inhabited by many Native American tribes. The area surrounding the site of the first Thanksgiving, now known as southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island.” People that incorporated in The Plymouth Colony were groups of English people that didn’t want anything to do with the Church of England. They had a fund and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to settle into The New World. Due to the windy conditions they cut the trip short. One fall day four settlers were sent to look for food for the celebrations. They heard gunshots and that got the leader hyped and they thought that the English wanted to start war. The Native Americans had realized that were only hunting for the harvest celebration. The feast last for three days all women, men, and children. They would say thanks to God for everything.
At their first thanksgiving they eat turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce.
Native Americans and Pilgrims came together for thanksgiving they gave thanks for the food and for the people. They say that this is a myth but Indian Squanto learned English from fishermen and later taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn and other vegetables. It is said that Squanto was kidnapped as a boy and sold into slavery in Spain. After several years, Squanto struggled to get back to Cape Cod. When he returned to his village, he discovered he was the only member of his tribe that remained the rest were either killed in battle or died of disease during his absence. Another myth that Squanto did not learn English solely to help the colonist it was a necessity to facilitate his escape so he could return
home.
“In the 19th century, the modern Thanksgiving holiday started to take shape. In 1846, Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of a magazine called Godley’s Lady’s Book, campaigned for an annual national thanksgiving holiday after a passage about the harvest gathering of 1621 was discovered and incorrectly labeled as the first Thanksgiving.” In 1863 Abraham Lincoln set two national thanksgiving. One in August because of the Battle of Gettysburg and the other in November to give thanks for "general blessings."
“When most Americans think about Thanksgiving today, they tend to think about football, turkey, "pilgrims," "Indian corn," and Native Americans, more or less in that order. But Thanksgiving is bigger than all that, and much older, too. Thanksgiving celebration with friends and family is a deeply meaningful and comforting annual to most Americans. Most people on thanksgiving help others for example, they go to homeless shelters to serve food to the homeless. Sometimes people donate to the poor so they can have a nice cooked meal for thanksgiving.