Thanksgiving Day History
Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. The day is to honor the friendship between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans and to express thankfulness, gratitude, and appreciation to God, family and friends for which all have been blessed of material possessions and relationships.
Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States . Because of the longstanding traditions of the holiday, the celebration often extends to the weekend that falls closest to the day it is celebrated. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. Historically, Thanksgiving had roots in religious and cultural tradition. Today, Thanksgiving is primarily celebrated as a secular holiday.
Black Friday is the name given to the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day, most major retailers open extremely early, often at 4 am, or earlier, and offer promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many Commonwealth Nations. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many non-retail employers also observe this day as a holiday along with Thanksgiving, giving their employees the day off, thereby increasing the number of potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005, although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.
The first English pilgrims came to the United States when they left England in search of a better life and the opportunity to be free from the King of England’s rule. When they first arrived, the Pilgrims struggled with great difficulties to survive, but luckily for them the Local Native Americans had helped them by showing the Pilgrims how to harvest corn, hunt, and plant. The Pilgrims and the Native Americans then had a great celebration to honor their friendship and the bounty that they had hunted and reaped. The typical Thanksgiving dinner consists of a Thanksgiving Day turkey, stuffing, squash, corn, bread, salad, mashed potatoes, and yams. In the United States this day is often infamous for being one in which people eat too much food and then complain of gaining weight and This is the symbol of festive turkey.