Why Is Thanksgiving Important

In thanksgiving it's all was a thursday but why? In 1846, Sarah Josepha Hale, most famous for the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” began petitioning through editorials and letters for a national Thanksgiving celebration. It took the magazine editor 17 years, but in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln finally proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving. In 1941, to avoid confusion, the US Congress set the date to the fourth Thursday of the month. Also another thing i did not know is that there was an another that was american author. Also that she wrote “Mary Had A Little Lamb.” She asked Abraham Lincoln to make ThanksGiving a holiday in in 1863. I didn't know that the first thanksgiving was in 1621 to

It also happens to be right after the US harvest season. There appears to be no real significance to Thursday, except that it was the day picked by President Lincoln. However, it is perfect because it allows for an extended weekend enabling families to take road trips to celebrate the holiday together. The main foods on the menu where goose, lobster, cod, and deer. This Thanksgiving tradition started when the American Intercollegiate Football Association (IFA) staged the championship game between Yale and Princeton on the day in 1876. It was such a success that it became a holiday staple. When IFA abandoned the tradition in 1934, the Detroit Lions seized the opportunity to attract more locals to their games. It was enormously popular. The inaugural game against the undefeated Chicago Bears was sold out two weeks before the event, and many fans had to be turned away. Since then, except for a short break from 1939-1944, the Lions have played every Thanksgiving! The Dallas Cowboys joined the tradition in 1966, and the two teams now attract millions of viewers on the holiday. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade, which was started by the department store employees in 1924, initially featured animals from New York’s Central Park Zoo. While they have long been replaced by the giant floats, the event remains extremely popular. An estimated 3.5 million people gather along Manhattan’s 77th Street and Central Park West to watch the procession each year, while 50 million more enjoy it on