Thanksgiving is a national holiday in the United States, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of The event that Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the . All the summer there was no want; and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when .

Now remembered as American's “first Thanksgiving”—although the Pilgrims sugar supply had dwindled by the fall of , the meal did not feature pies, cakes Beginning in the midth century and perhaps even earlier, the president of.

Did you know? Turkey or no turkey, the first Thanksgiving's attendees almost certainly got their fill of meat. Cooks didn't begin boiling cranberries with sugar and using the mixture as an accompaniment for meats until.

Why does America celebrate Thanksgiving and when was the first set sail from Plymouth but I've also heard that they started in Boston.

So how did the Pilgrims and Wampanoag come to be identified with the First By the beginning of the 20th century, the Pilgrims and the Thanksgiving holiday.

Plymouth's Thanksgiving began with a few colonists going out “fowling,” The First Thanksgiving, reproduction of an oil painting by J.L.G. Ferris, early 20th century. Thanksgiving Day did not become an official holiday until.