Скачать или смотреть What's the Truth About Thanksgiving?

What's the Truth About Thanksgiving? From it’s questionable origin to presidents pardoning the bird...stay tuned to number 1 to find out the true history of Thanksgiving!

This top 10 brought to you by Zero2Hero!!

Don't forget to subscribe here! https://goo.gl/NXuChu

Click here to see these Famous Feuds Among your Favorite Musicians!    • Famous Feuds Among your Favorite Musicians!  

Number 10: The First Thanksgiving.
If I say the words "the first Thanksgiving" to you then you likely get an image of pilgrims and Native Americans dining together across a long table and enjoying their time together. Usually, history exaggerates what actually happens in key moments, but believe it or not...this one was accurate. Even if we don't know the exact details of what's going on or where it happened.
The widely held belief about the first Thanksgiving was that it was held between the Colonists and Wampanoag Indians when they shared an autumn harvest feast in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. That's where the picture is said to based on. However, there is some debate over whether this is actually true.
There are some historians who believe that the first Thanksgiving didn't happen in Massachusetts but, rather, in Florida. And it wasn't the Colonists who had this meal, rather, it was the Spanish. You see, in 1565, nearly 60 years before Plymouth, a Spanish fleet came ashore and planted a cross in the sandy beach to christen the new settlement of St. Augustine.
They decided to celebrate their arrival with a feast, a feast in which they brought in the native Timucuan people. So technically...that could be the first Thanksgiving.
Either way, the image honestly is the same in most cases. Two different people's coming together to have a meal and enjoying everyone's company.
Number 9: The First Thanksgiving Meal.
Ok everyone, I want you to picture your ideal Thanksgiving Day meal. Lunch or Dinner, doesn't matter. What do you see in front of you? The turkey all golden brown and juicy? The mashed potatoes that you are savoring and will drench with butter? All of the flavors of pies...pumpkin, apple, cherry, or more? And washing it all down with juice, soda...or something stronger? It's good that you're enjoying that now, because that is hardly a traditional Thanksgiving Day meal.
Sure, it's traditional in the modern sense, by how humanity has "perceived" Thanksgiving, but if we're talking about the original Thanksgiving, the meal wasn't even close to that.
In terms of Turkey, it's true there were turkeys in the colonies, but it wasn't something everyone would eat. And, there's no official record stating that turkeys were on the menu. But that doesn't mean there wasn't meat. Deer was hunted by the Native Americans and likely brought in for the feast. Also, whether in Florida or Massachusetts, seafood would have been big on the menu, maybe including fish and lobster.
Potatoes? Not so much. While trade had been going on, potatoes weren't in great numbers in the colonies, and likely weren't used in the original feast.
Still, it's fine if you don't go fully traditional, go and enjoy what your family brings you.
Number 8: When Did The Government Acknowledge Thanksgiving?
Before we answer THIS question...take a moment to like this video and join the Zero2Hero community by using the button below!
That's a question that's a little tricky to answer, because when it comes to the "official" holiday of Thanksgiving, it was given ratification, of sorts, by the government of the US and their leaders more times than you
might think. Sometimes it was given as a singular day of thanks, ones that would acknowledge or honor a momentous occasion or victory.
According to the History Channel:
"America first called for a national day of thanksgiving to celebrate victory over the British in the Battle of Saratoga. In 1789, George Washington again called for national day of thanks on the last Thursday of November in 1777 to commemorate the end of the Revolutionary War and the ratification of the Constitution. And during the Civil War, both the Confederacy and the Union issued Thanksgiving Day proclamations following major victories."
So yeah, you could honestly say that Thanksgiving has been a big deal for many parts of early Colonial history. Even then, though, some Presidents like Thomas Jefferson actually opposed the holiday because they thought it would set a religious precedent of sorts.
Either way, the idea of giving thanks is very much engrained in American culture.
Number 7: Who Made It Officially Official Though?
Alright, so if you're wondering which President made Thanksgiving an annual holiday, then you would have to go to Abraham Lincoln, which is very poetic if we can be honest with one another here. He officially called for an annual day of Thanksgiving back in 1863. Which means the holiday is basically 256 years old!
But, here's the catch, while it was Lincoln who helped make it official, it wasn't Lincoln's idea, per se, to make it happen.