Thanksgiving

What is thanksgiving?
It's basically a day to share with the family on the fourth day of november.
Who were the pilgrims?
The pilgrims were a small group of people who sailed to North America in order to start a new life.
What is the Mayflower?
The Mayflower is the ship that the pilgrims used to sail to Nort America.

Who are the Wampanoag?

The Wampanoag are people from North America who were here long before any Europeans arrived, and have survived until today. Many people call them "Indians" but they prefer to be called native people.

What happened to the Pilgrims during the first winter?
This was very bad timing as the Pilgrims did not have time to plant food for the winter. The first winter was very harsh for the new settlers. The cold temperatures and snow interfered as the Pilgrims tried to construct their settlement. Out of the original group of Pilgrims, only about half survived the first winter.

What did the Wampanoag do for the pilgrims?
The wampanoag taught the pilgrims how to hunt, fish and grow corn.

What did they celebrate the first Thanksgiving?
They celebrated because they had a succesful harvest so they had food for all the winter, for that reason they invited the indians to join in the celebration and also because they were who taught them how to survive.

When is Thanksgiving Celebrated now?
In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.

Talking about what I learned it is pretty much because I have never heard about it maybe in Internet or T.V shows but not so much and learning about its history is very interesting and I guess that there may be people that celebrate it and even they don't know all of this.