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Cindy Choi<br />
Special Days<br />
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Thanksgiving<br />
By Jessica<br />
Thanksgiving is a holiday<br />
in November. It is celebrated<br />
in the United States, Canada,<br />
some of the Caribbean<br />
islands, and Liberia. It has<br />
been celebrated as a federal<br />
holiday every year since 1863, when, during the American<br />
Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a<br />
national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent<br />
Father who dwelled in the Heavens," to be celebrated on<br />
the last Thursday in November. When Americans call the<br />
“Holiday Season” generally starts with Thanksgiving.<br />
Thanksgiving has been an annual tradition in the United<br />
States by the presidential proclamation since 1863 and by<br />
state legislation since the Founding Fathers of the United<br />
States. Historically, Thanksgiving has traditionally been a<br />
celebration of the blessings of the year, including the harvest.<br />
It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of<br />
the harvest and of the preceding<br />
year. In 1621, the Plymouth<br />
colonists and Wampanoag<br />
Indians shared an autumn<br />
harvest feast that is<br />
acknowledged today as one of<br />
the first Thanksgiving<br />
celebrations in the colonies.<br />
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