The History of the United States Flag

From the inception of our country to today, the US Flag has taken on many different forms. 

Episode Transcript

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The stars and stripes will discussed aswe took a bite out of history with
ingles markets. It was June fourteenth, seventeen seventy seven, in the middle
of the American Revolution, that ContinentalCongress declared that the new flag of the
United States would be thirteen alternating redand white stripes with white stars in a
blue field. The story goes thatBetsy Ross, a seamstress from Philadelphia,
created the flag, putting the whitestars into a circle, after discussing suggestions

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with George Washington, but that isjust a story that's never been proven or
disproven by historians. As new statescame to the Union, stripes and stars
were added to the flag. Thenan eighteen eighteen Congress decided it would be
best to have a flag with theoriginal thirteen redd and white stripes and only
add white stars with the addition ofnew states. In eighteen seventy seven,
Congress declared June fourteenth Flag Day tocelebrate the one hundredth anniversary of creating the

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flag, and in nineteen forty nineit was officially made an annual holiday.
The color red represents courage and bravery, White stands for purity and innocence,
and Blue was for vigilance, perseveranceand justice. This has been a bite
out of history with England as markets