Trivia: What national holiday did Abraham Lincoln establish during the Civil War?
Christmas
Fourth of July
Thanksgiving
Labor Day
The correct answer is Thanksgiving
So why is this answer correct? : The harvest feast shared by PIlgrims and American Indians in 1621 is considered the first day of Thanksgiving in the U.S. But Thanksgiving didn’t become an official national holiday until Lincoln established it in the middle of the Civil War to heal a wounded nation. Still, it was the image of that colonial feast that endured in the Americans’ popular imagination, and is the symbol of the holiday today.