The origin of Thanksgiving dates back to 1624 and was declared a national holiday in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln. Thanksgiving started because there was a successful harvest and the pilgrims had a surplus of food, so they wanted to be grateful for it, and they celebrated because of it. Congress officially declared Thanksgiving as a holiday every year on the fourth Thursday every November in 1941.

Thanksgiving was a very successful harvest for the people of Wampoag, which is now Massachusetts. Thanksgiving was also a day to be grateful to the pilgrims for a drought that ended in 1623, too. There were other days or years when people, including leaders, would have a day to celebrate a feast or simply express gratitude for everything they had received, such as food, water, a successful harvest, or the end of a drought.

Native Americans take Thanksgiving as a day of mourning. They also invited the English settlers into their celebration of the successful harvest. During Thanksgiving, people share and are grateful, and that’s what the natives did. They shared their successful harvest with the English settlers, and then they were grateful for the feast that they provided to them.

The first festival lasted 3 days of just pure celebration of the great harvest. The Wampanoag helped the pilgrims to survive for their first year. When the pilgrims made it there, the Wampanoag were kind enough to help them for their first year of arriving, and helped them settle in and began their alliance with each other.

Thanksgiving is a day to spend time with people to share and be grateful for everything that has happened to you. The impact of Thanksgiving has been massive on people around the U.S, because Thanksgiving is a national holiday, not a global holiday, so it is mostly celebrated in the U.S. People still celebrate Thanksgiving outside the U.S., but few actually do. Most people who celebrate Thanksgiving don’t know about the origin. People normally don’t know or just don’t have a clue about the origin, and just care about the food and family, and not how it started and why we celebrate it, and the gift that was given to the pilgrims and the Wampanoag.