Show EAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN FLAG it Is declared by students may be traced back as far as the twelfth century american flag Is a growth rather than a crea creation tiou its hia his tory can be traced back to tv 0 1 th century or nearly POO yeara years prior the first flag day june 14 1777 2177 during the first crusade In ln 1195 pe urban 11 II assigned to all of the nations as standards etan dards crosses trying in color and design em emblen bleir ic of the warfare in bich which they ere engaged to the 9 atch troop troops is as assigned the white saltre eal tre known the white cross of st on a W at field the britten british used 1 allow rs LS but a century and a quaner quant ler ter thoy they adopted a red aws cro on a bite fielo knows as the red cross of t george jaben hen james VI of scotland ascend I 1 the throne of england aa as james 1 I i combined the two sags flags and issued proclamation requiring all ships ship to irry try the new flag at their main aste at the same lime ilme the vessels t south Bri britain tatiA were to carry at air forema eti the red cross of st orge eorge and the ships of north britain carry the white of st an ear rew the tle new now flag was known aft kings lors the union colors or the treat rest union and gatei late as the union ck and wac as the one inder which e british made all their pelman permanent erit in america it was the ag kg ot of great britain only by on n however not until 1707 did par ment pas pap an act definitely uniting e two count countries lies ej abid their cage la in e lame same fear year the government issued gulat lonn requiring the navy to uee use hat rae ras knewt as the white ensign ic naval reserve the blue ensign ad i the merchant marine the red e en agn agn 0 owing ing to the tact fact that the brit h a irr chant vessels were everywhere ie e colont colon tits if in america came to look pen pon this red ensign as the flag of real britain the people in the new england col lies nies were bitte bittera bit teri tir opposed to the oss rose in the hag flag la in 1635 1636 some of the oops in massachusetts declined to larch under this flag sed the military were forced to design ther flag flags for their troops with the rose ross left out the design they adopt d hae ban not been in 1652 a int nt was established ll 11 boston toney ioney coined in thi this had pad the inc ine tree tramped on an one bide side of 0 0 he be pine rine tree design wa was also used n new england flags certainly by 0 and possibly ros sibly as a early ae as 1635 at the outbreak fut rut break ot of the It evolution he a american colonies colon tea had no flag QuI nIcil to all 11 ll ot of them in many cases e e merchant der chant marine flag of england as a ud iab with the pine tree led ted foi the union jack massa ulett a arted rt ed the green pine tr trel a white bite neld field with the motto an appeal to ideas on home of the auth south rn n states late had the th rattlesnake flag gag ath th th the e motto dont tread on me ife 1 a white or belloe field thin flag il d been used by south carolina aa as aly riy as 11 1764 benjamin TY franklin anklin de do abed the rattlesnake rattle nake device oa an tha aind d that file the rattlesnake ie to found ly IY it in america and that serpent eta em were considered uy andeits ac cleats i be 60 ot of wisdom in september Sept enber there was die ted in the souta south what v as by any believed lo 10 be the first distinct aly american flag it vu was blue wh ate t crescent crt scent and ib chad the ts ct of the troops who wore cap caps ln in rib bd Ll berty or death the colonists colon let desired to adopt ft tk fu tut but they hao bat not yet declared independence and were not at first seeking independence they took the british flag nag as an they knew know it and made a new colonial flag by divid ing the red field with white stripes into thirteen alternate red and white stripes this la to known as the cam bridge nag flag because it was first un furled ever washington e head ten at cambridge mass on january 1 1776 it compiled complied with the lw ot of 1707 by having the union jack on it it t also represented the thirteen colonies by the thirteen stripes tripe As the colonists gradually bonamo converted to tho the idea that Inde In depend pens ence from the mother country as was necessary they began to modify the flag first by leaving off the union jack and using only the thirteen horl stripes the modified flaga flags were vere not always red and white but regularly consisted of combinations of two colora colors selected from red white blue and yellow the linal modification was the rela replacement cement of the union jack by the white stars on a bilco field the stars are the only distinctive feature of the american hag flag the charming etory story which atey l rose noss with making the first flag of stars and stripes Is still accepted by historians ahen washington niton sug bug the elx sit pointed star she derlon rated the ease with which a five pointed tar star could be made by told las ing a e of paper and producing one with 9 dinglo clip of the scissors scle sore some writers titers are of the opinion that both stars lad stripes in tho the flag ak ere derived from the coat of arms of the washington family but this theory lacot generally held the official adoption of our out first flig was in 1777 on june 14 of that year the th continental congress passed an act providing that the flag nag of the thirteen united states be thirteen stripes alternate red and white that the union be thirteen stars white on a blue field representing a new constellation the thirteen stare stars were arranged ranged in n a circle to symbolize the per of the union of the states vermont Vermon was admitted to the union in 1791 and kentucky in 1792 it WM wa felt that these two new now nates ou douht ht to be tie recognized on the A flag ag no in 1791 1794 con congress greas pae pas ed an act making the flag fifteen tars stars and fifteen stripes this remained the flag of the states throughout the war of 1812 until there twenty elates states in the union in 1816 an n effort was again made to modify the flag so that all the be new states would be represented on an it to be continually adding stripes would make the fing very awkward pi shape and appearance so after arguing the matter for two years congress d decided to tu return to the original thirteen stripes ard one star for each state congress baa has never determined the arrangement atran ran gement of the stars nor the hape shape and proportions of the flag and there I 1 pas as been great variation especially tn in the grouping ing of the stars there are still many who believe that the symbolic circular grouping of stars should be restored stored te |