Unit 2: No Thanks, No giving (1ère Générale)

 (At the following of what we did last time)

As a result, in 1863, during the Civil War, president Abraham Lincoln was the one who made Thanksgiving official and that it should be celebrated every last Thursday of November. Then, in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that Thanksgiving would be celebrated every 4^th Thursday of November.

Finally, in 1989 President George W.H. Bush created a presidential tradition: the Turkey Pardon. Indeed, every year one or two turkeys would be sent to a farm rather than cooked for a Thanksgiving meal. Several presidents had followed the tradition since then: Clinton, Obama, Bush Junior…   

Homework: Learn the lesson.