The first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in the year 1621. The Pilgrams who had come to the New World from England landed at Plymouth Rock, in what is now Massachusetts, on December 26, 1620 after being at sea for almost a year.
When the Pilgrams landed in this country they discovered that the grain they brought from England wouldn't grow in the soil of their new home. The first winter was very hard for the early settlers and many people died because of sickness and starvation. The native Indians came to the aid of the Pilgrams and taught them how to plant crops of corn. They also taught the Pilgrams how to hunt and fish.
As a result of the help that the Indians gave to the settlers, the crops in the fall of 1621 did well and there was a great harvest. The Pilgrams decided to have a feast as a way of giving thanks. The Pilgrams invited their friends, the Indians, to share this first Thanksgiving feast which lasted three days.Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national holiday by Congress in
1941.
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