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What is thanks giving day?

Can someone please explain what thanks giving and Independence day is.?

  • I'm from Britain and although i know they are holidays for Americans, i have never known what they are really about or the history of them, all i really know if that it is ...show more

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    Thanksgiving takes place in November and supposedly it was started when the first "pilgrims" who came to America and the Native Americans who were already here shared food together to make it through the winter. (That's the polite Americanized version). Some people do not believe that it what happened but that's the traditional theory that is taught to us when we are young. Today, it's a day to get together with family or friends and share a big meal together (usually turkey but not always) Some families or groups tell each other what they are thankful for. Independence Day is celebrated on the 4th of July and is a celebration of when the continent (North America) became free from British rule after the Revolutionary War. Most businesses are closed down for the day and people just enjoy the vacation day. Hope this helps a little.

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Independence day is when we celebrate the signing of our Declaration of Independence. It is usually celebrated by picnics, barbecues, parades and fireworks at night. Thanksgiving is a "fall harvest" festival celebrating the survival of the pilgrims through their first year and a successful harvest that would see them through another winter. People tend to celebrate this by eating a big turkey dinner.

Pirate AM™

it marks the day when the country was founded a guy crashed his ship on the continant and discoved red indians and tought them english customs or sumthin like that so thats why they speak english and that

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NSA

thankgiving- when you give thanks for all you have independence- We celebrate independence because we won our's from Britian.

Donn568

Ask the Question in the American Holidays area. Aussies dont have either thanksgiving or independence day....unless you count having it on DVD.

DreadSmurf

It is to celebrate your Independence from slavery

kibye

Thanksgiving is a US holiday, sometime in November I think. It is to celibrate the survival of the Pilgrim Fathers after the first winter spent in what is now the US. Local natives helped them with finding and trapping food from the forest. A staple of which was wild turkeys, hence the tradition of eating turkey on thanksgiving day Independance day celibrates independance from the Brits, after the war of independance. It is held on the 4th of July. Try looking these two holidays up in an encyclopdia. They are both US holidays, and are only celibrated by Americans, so have no significance to me, as I am not a US citizen.

Curious Cat

independence day is the day we celebrate victory in the american revouloution. we celebrate freedom from british rule. we celebrate with fireworks, hot dogs, hamburgers and we wear red white and blue. the ground beef and packaged hotdogs usually get sold out pretty quick. thanks giving is when we celebrate the english settlers survival after the winter when they landed at plymouth rock in the new england region of america. the british colonies were founded and that led to revouloution. mainly due to taxation without representation.

w

Thanksgiving is a time for family to get together, goes back to the pilgrims eating turkey with the native americans I believe...

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