Презентация на тему A History of the United States through its flags

about the origin of the flag’s symbols – the

stars and stripes and separate out the myths from the facts behind the Stars and Stripes.

we can offer different opinions about the American flag’s

origin and about tight connection between the history of the country and the history of its flag .

and aesthetic communication;
to broaden intellectual horizon and vocabulary;
to analyze

existing versions and work out our own version on the given question;
to form skills of research work and work with scientific literature;
to create the methodical learner’s guide on regional history of the United States of America for secondary and senior school.

systematization of the methodological, artistic, popular and scientific literature,

Internet sites;
translation of articles and other materials into English language.

specific studies of The United States of America for

secondary and senior school.
studying the history of The United States of America through the origin of the flag’s symbols – the stars and stripes.

them are as universally recognized as the American flag

was no official United States Flag for the first

year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, there were a great number of homespun flag designs. The first flag is without question the most well known of those.

The First United States Flag “Betsy Ross”

Bennington Flag

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number of changes in the 17th century, the St.

George's Cross continued as the official national flag. The Union flag would have been the official flag of what would one day become Georgia.

A new flag for England and her colonies was adopted in 1707. This flag was widely used on ships during the Colonial period. This was the first National flag of the United States.

raised this Flag on the British frigate Serapis, which

he had captured during the most famous Revolutionary naval battle on September 23rd, 1779, when his own ship, the badly damaged Bonhomme Richard, sank.

This was the first national flag of the English colonies, and Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown under this flag.

was in Philadelphia representing his home colony of South

Carolina at the Continental Congress and presented this new naval flag to the Congress. It became the first flag used by the sea-going soldiers who eventually would become the United States Marines.

if you really want to know who caused the

American Revolution, the answer is the British East India Company, originally, called the English East India Company, but renamed in 1707.

animal emblem of the Americans even before the Revolution.

In 1751 Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette carried a bitter article protesting the British practice of sending convicts to America.

prescribed the use of the jack. Additionally it is

flown to indicate a court martial is in progress, and as the President's and Secretary of the Navy's personal flag. This powerful American symbol was used by the Continental Navy in 1775 and is being used again by the U.S. Navy in the War on Terrorism.

known as the Continental flag, it is the first

true U.S. Flag. It combined the British King's Colours and the thirteen stripes signifying Colonial unity. George Washington liked this design so well that he chose it to be flown to celebrate the formation of the Continental Army on New Years Day, 1776, on Prospect Hill in Somerville, near his headquarters at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

in the Civil War as well as the Plains

Indian Wars later on. This was also one of the three flags of Colonel George A. Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of Little Big Horn, as this was the standard Cavalry Guidon of that era, 1876.

"Liberty" on them came to be called Liberty Flags

and were usually flown from Liberty poles.

of the Pine Tree as a symbol of New

England predates the European colonial settlements. In eastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and the southern corner of Maine, there lived a nomadic tribe of Native Americans known as the Penacook.

Bay Colony used the British Red Ensign for public

ceremonies.  In 1636, Roger Williams preached a sermon condemning the "unchristian" shaped cross in the flag as a symbol of the Anti-Christ. Governor John Endicott ordered removal of the St. George's Cross from their flags.

of Liberty Flags 1765 The history of the Stamp

Act flag began in about 1765, when protests of the duties and taxes and stamps required by Parliament began in the colonies.

1775
According to legend, one day in 1775 General

Washington approached Rebecca Flower Young, a Philadelphia pennant and colors maker, and asked her to make a flag for use by the troops. The flag he designed became known as the Grand Union Flag. Years later, Rebecca assisted her daughter in making an even more famous flag for our country, the "Star Spangled Banner" used at Ft. McHenry.

privateer is a privately-owned warship authorized by "letters of

marque" from a recognized national government to attack foreign shipping. The 13 Colonies, having declared their Independence, had only 31 ships comprising the Continental Navy. To add to this, local state governments issued Letters of Marque to privately owned merchant ships which were then armed as warships to prey on British merchant ships.

According to mistaken legend, in June of 1776, Betsy

Ross, who was a widow struggling to run her own upholstery business sewed the first flag. Upholsterers in Colonial America not only worked on furniture but did all manner of sewing work, which for some included making flags.

we discount the whole Betsy Ross story as a

myth is because we know George Washington didn't favor five-pointed stars. Take a look at the personal flag that George Washington had made in 1775 and notice that he used six pointed stars! He never stopped using this flag throughout the whole the Revolutionary War.

Official "Stars and Stripes" is credited to Francis Hopkinson,

a Congressman from New Jersey, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. His design had the thirteen stars arranged in a "staggered" pattern. Although there is no original example of this flag still left, we do have the bill he gave Congress for its design. Congressman Hopkins asked Congress for a keg of ale for his work. There is no record of Congress ever paying him.

The Fort Independence Flag 1781 Jonathon Fowle presented this

flag to the officers of "Castle William " (later renamed Fort Independence) in Boston in 1781. The first foreign war ship to visit the new United States after the war was H.M.S. Alligator in 1791. She saluted the American flag with 13 guns and the fort returned the salute. The flag is now part of the Massachusetts State House collection.

of the Great Star flag. This flag flew over

the Capitol dome for at least six months of 1818. This flag was designed by Captain Samuel Chester Reid of the U.S. Navy. Congress adopted both his 13 stripes idea and the idea of adding a star for each future state.

with absolute certainty who designed the first stars and

stripes or who made it. Congressman Francis HopkinsonNo one knows with absolute certainty who designed the first stars and stripes or who made it. Congressman Francis Hopkinson seems most likely to have designed it, and few historians believe that Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress, made the first one.

my Flag and the Republic for which it stands-

one nation indivisible-with liberty and justice for all."

Pennsylvania December 12th,1787
(3rd) New Jersey December18th, 1787
(4th)

Georgia January 2nd, 1788
(5th) Connecticut January 9th, 1788
(6th) Massachusetts February 6th, 1788
(7th) Maryland April 28th, 1788
(8th) South Carolina May 23rd, 1788
(9th) New Hampshire June 21st, 1788
(10th) Virginia June 25th, 1788
(11th) New York July 25th, 1788
(12th) North Carolina November 21st, 1789
(13th) Rhode Island May 29th, 1790

have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the

flag of the United States"

was traditionally celebrated as America's birthday, but the idea

of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as 'Flag Birthday'. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as 'Flag Birthday', or 'Flag Day'.