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'''Thanksgiving Day''' is a feast commonly celebrated in Protestant churches to give thanks to God for harvest. However, Thanksgiving Day is not [[Commandments of God|God’s commandments]] or a [[Feasts of God|feast]] found in the Bible. It is a national holiday in the United States that originated from the celebration of thanksgiving for the first harvest in the fall of the following year after British Puritans<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/modern-europe/british-and-irish-history/puritans |title=Puritans |website= |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |date=May 23, 2018 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref>migrated to the United States around the 17th century.

The British Puritans, who fled to the Netherlands to escape the persecution of the Church of England (Anglican Church) in 1620, set out on a rough voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower. They arrived in Plymouth, a port city near Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States today.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/plymouth-colony |title=Plymouth Colony |website= |publisher=Encyclopedia.com |date=June 8, 2018 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref> <br>When they arrived in the new continent after 65 days of sailing, what waited for them was cold weather and food shortages. Forty-four out of 102 people who rode the Mayflower died. At that time, Native Americans came and helped them. The Wampanoag tribe gave food to the Puritans and taught them how to cultivate crops. The following year, in the fall of 1621, the Puritans invited the Native Americans to celebrate their first harvest; they caught a turkey for a festival and gave thanks to God. This day is known as the first Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Since then, a harvest festival, which had been observed as a folk custom in each country, has become a church holiday due to the influence of Thanksgiving Day which was officially enacted in the United States.<ref name="파이낸스">{{인용 |url=https://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving/history-of-thanksgiving#:~:text=In%201621%2C%20the%20Plymouth%20colonists,by%20individual%20colonies%20and%20states. |title=Thanksgiving 2022 |publisher=History.com |date=October 27, 2009}}</ref>

: The harvest festival held by the British colonists and the native Wampanoag tribe in 1621 is the origin of Thanksgiving.<ref name="Thanksgivingday">[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Thanksgiving-Day Thanksgiving Day] Britannica</ref> In 1623, the State of Massachusetts declared the Thanksgiving Day,<ref name="파이낸스" /> and in 1789, the first President of the United States, George Washington, established November 26 as a national holiday.<ref>[https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/november-26/ Thanksgiving Day, Today in History -  November 26], LIBRARY OF CONGRRESS</ref><ref>1789, United States Facts and Dates, Lionel De Leon, 2012, pg. 9</ref> However, the third President, Thomas Jefferson, excluded Thanksgiving from a national holiday, claiming that it was British, so it was kept in only a few states.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-thanksgiving-south-history-20171223-story.html |title=In America, there was a time when even ‘Thanksgiving’ was a fightin’ word |website= |publisher=Los Angeles Times |date=November 23, 2017 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref> In the 1840s, American writer Sarah Josepha Hale insisted on keeping Thanksgiving as an annual feast by launching a national Thanksgiving campaign.<ref>[https://www.almanac.com/sarah-josepha-hale-godmother-thanksgiving#:~:text=On%20October%203%2C%201863%2C%20he,at%20the%20age%20of%2090. Sarah Josepha Hale: The Godmother of Thanksgiving], October 28, 2021, Almanac.com</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://time.com/4577082/thanksgiving-holiday-history-origins/ |title=Thanksgiving Wasn't Always a National Holiday. This Woman Made It Happen |website= |publisher=HISTORY, TIME |date=November 23, 2016 |year= |author= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref> In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln officially declared Thursday, November 26, as Thanksgiving Day to arouse patriotism during the Civil War.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/lincoln-and-thanksgiving.htm |title=Lincoln and Thanksgiving |website=National Park Service |publisher=  |date= |year= |page= |series= |isbn= |quote= }}</ref> Thanksgiving is now celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in accordance with a joint resolution of Congress in 1941 and a proclamation issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.<ref name="Thanksgivingday" /><br>