What Does the US Flag Mean?

The American flag has a lot of meaning built into it, like:

• Stars: One to represent each state (50)

• Stripes: One to represent each original state (13)

• Colors: Red, White, & Blue

As you can see, the US flag has meaning different meanings!



Were you able to guess what the colors meant?

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A More Detailed Look at the Flag

The Battle of the Banner

The ideas of the Star-Spangled Banner came from the War of 1812.
The person who is responsible for the song is Francis Scott Key, an American who was captured by the British and watched the Bombing of Fort McHenry.
Little did he know it'd become a national symbol many years later.

How the Star-Spangled Banner Came to be:

Francis Scott Key

Star-Spangled Banner

" O say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there; O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? " 

The Pledge of Allegiance

After the Civil War, many soldiers came together to help unite the country, and one idea was to have citizens regularly promise their loyalty to the United States.


This group, the G.A.R. would go on to make the Pledge a national symbol!

How the Pledge of Allegiance Came to be: