Show Picture Story of 0 U. U S. S Flag Flab rl P v TREE LIBERTY OR DEATH AN TO GOD coo DONT TREAD ON M ME F PRE-INDEPENDENCE PRE FLAGS FLAGS Depicted Depicted above are banners carried carrie by American patriots wh when n they first took up arms in 1775 At the left leit is the blue flag with its white crescent which was wai nailed to the staff at Fort Moultrie by Sergeant Jasper In the center is the Rattlesnake Flag of or the Virginia minute men at Culpeper At Atthe Atthe Atthe the right is one of the New England pine tree Hags flags Nf K l a V o.- o. ki iII II I Wf THE miST STARS AND WI STRIPES ro tN i TAM STARS AND AUD STRIPES STRIDES This is the first Stars and Stripes The Continental Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress on June 14 1777 resolved That the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes re red and white that the Union be thirteen stars white in a blue field representing a n new constellation According to legend the pointed five stars were designed by Mrs Betsy Ross With the admission of Vermont an and Kentucky to the Union two stars and two stripes were added to the flag following an Act of or Congress in 1794 It was n a flag of 15 stars and 15 stripes over Ft McHenry that inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star- Star Spangled Banner Congress in 1818 restored the original number of stripes |