Finally, in 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt decreed that the holiday should always be celebrated on the fourth Thursday of the month.
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In the year 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt has moved the Thanksgiving holiday by one week before than regular schedule, thinking that by rescheduling the holiday it would help increase the retail sales during one of the final years of the Great Depression.
He felt that last Thursday in November fell on the last day of the month which would make no time for Christmas shopping season and it might diminish the economic revival.
So, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a Presidential Proclamation moving Thanksgiving to the second to last Thursday of November which has led to much confusion and disapproval, causing some to ridicule the holiday as Franksgiving.
The Colombian Exchange brought many diseases to the New World that the Native Americans were not immune to bringing death to many of the natives.
American Protestants were afraid of the increased catholic immigration since <u>they felt threatened by the idea of America becoming a Catholic country. </u>
- On the one hand, Catholics believed a different Christianity than Protestants. Protestants, as opposed to the Catholic church, thought the following:
- Less hierarchy in church structure.
- The Bible and, not the sacraments, as source of revelation from God
- Jesus as the only necessary intercessor with God.
- There was an prejudice from anti-catholics that has to do with social class or status of the inmigrants. <u>Protestants from upper classes</u>, believed that the inmigrants were poor, therefore, they associated them with crime, danger and laziness.
- The fear from the American protestants created by the massive flow of catholic inmigrants, was so big that even a popular national organization, the <u>American Protective Association</u>, was founded to promote anti-Catholicism.
I think 10 is the right answer
