The stripes represent 13 colonies, and the stars represent the 50 states. The colors of the flag are very symbolic as well: Red symbolizes Hardiness and Valor, as White symbolizes Purity and Innocence, and Blue represents Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice. This is our country pieced together in a similar way. States, people, and cultures that is not identical in any shape or form, but find away to bind together. And to those who astray from unity try to break the strengths of what we believe in independents.
Naval Career A. Mexican-American War B. New York Navy Yard C. West Indies, Africa, and Russia III. Accomplishments A. Open trade route with Japan IV. Formosa V. Memorials THE NAVAL HISTORY OF COMMODORE MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY Matthew Calbraith Perry was born on April 10th, 1794 in Newport, Rhode Island.
Giovanni Salazar Mrs. Spencer Government 10-30-13 U.S Flag Report Our flag originated from that of The East India Company, a powerful trading enterprise, whose flag happened to have 13 red and white horizontal stripes with a blue rectangle in its upper left-hand corner. The Origin of our flag when the first official national flag, also known as the Stars and Stripes, was approved by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. The blue canton contained 13 stars, representing the original 13 colonies, but the layout varied. Although nobody knows for sure who designed the flag, it may have been Continental Congress member Francis Hopkinson. When George Washington took command of the U.S. Continental Army under an elm tree in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States flag was used.
the Continental Congress, Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee presented a series of resolutions on June 7, 1776, calling for independence from Great Britain and the establishment of a national government in America. On July 1st, Congress approved the resolutions. Two committees were established; one for drafting a Declaration of Independence, and the other for designing the structure for an American government. Seated on the declaration committee were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and John Adams. The manuscript was penned by Jefferson, a 33-year-old Virginian lawyer and planter with a talent for persuasive writing.
It is an emblem of our country and it also stands for its harmony. The stars on the flag symbolize the states and the stripes stand for the first 13 colonies. The narrative is that a woman named Betsy Ross embroidered the first flag in 1776. The story goes that.. "On January 1, 1776, the Continental Army was restructured in accord with a Congressional ruling which placed American forces under George Washington's power. On that New Year's Day the Continental Army was arranging cordon to Boston which had been taken over by the British Army.
While sailing with Porter on the Essex during the War of 1812, James changed his name to David after David Porter. So there was born a new person. David Glasgow Farragut, one of the greatest men ever in the Civil War. David saw his first combat at the age of eleven and commanded a vessel at the age of twelve. From 1815 through 1820 David served in the Mediterranean and temporarily commanded the brig Spark.
American Freedom Vs. French Upheaval As Americans we are all, obviously, very well informed and aware of how our country came to be. We know about the Pilgrims, we know about the original Thirteen Colonies, and we know that we gained our independence from England through the Revolutionary War. Because this is what Americans have been taught about “Revolutions”, when one hears of the French Revolution it is easy to assume that it was very similar to America’s Revolution. After all, they were both around the same time and they were both overthrew the monarchies that controlled them. Although they may seem similar, through deeper investigation and examination one will find that the two revolutions were quite different.
Though our country seems to have much international influence, we have not existed nearly long enough to give up on patriotism yet. In 1907, the US Supreme Court declared that, “To every true American the flag is the symbol of the nation’s power,” and that the flag also was, “the emblem of freedom in its truest, best sense.” (Tedford and Herbeck, 286) The flag reminds us (as
The flag today compose of thirteen horizontal stripes, seven red with 6 white stripes alternating. The stripes represent the original 13 colonies, the stars represent the 50 states of the Union. The colors of the flag are very symbolic. Nobody has the knowledge to know what the colors represents but we believe red represents hardiness and valor, white symbolizes purity and innocence and blue represents vigilance, perseverance and justice. The flag also represents the people, land, government, and the ideals of the United States.
On August 3, 1861 the United States Navy’s Ironclad Board placed ads in Northern Newspapers inviting designers to submit their plans for the construction of ironclad warships. In a letter to Abraham Lincoln dated August 29, 1861 John Ericsson offered to build a vessel, “…that within ten weeks after commencing the structure I would engage to be ready to take up position under the Rebel guns at Norfolk…” Ericsson was a Swedish-American inventor that designed the Union Monitor nicknamed “cheese box on a raft.’ The Confederate Merrimack or Merrimac was originally a wooden frigate. Federal troops fled the ship when they evacuated the Naval yard at Portsmouth, Virginia in 1861. Confederate forces raised it, and then covered the ship with iron plates. They renamed the ship Virginia, although I’ll be using Merrimack by which it is better known.