History of Changes of the Flag. “ No one knows who designed the First American Flag after the America was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492”. In 1642 Thomas Jefferson was strongly referred he had designed the first American Flag.” Betsy Ross was who designed the firstly designed the American Flag and appeared the flag with George Washington. Robert G. was the designer of the 50 stars of the United States of American Flag . The design for the 13 stripes were created differently some of the 13- stripes were
The flag has been around 200 years. The American Flag is also a symbol of pride. “On June 14,1777 in order to establish an official flag for the new nation the continental congress passed the first flag act, “Resolved that the flag of the united states be made of thirteen stripes,
ENGL1301 Flag Day In the United Stated, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United State, which happened that day by resolution of the the Second Continental Congress in 1777, and the date which is also be the birthday of United States Army. The President Woodrow Wilson announced that officially that established June 14 as Flag Day in 1916. And 33 years later, National Flag Day was established by an Act of Congress in August 1949. （http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Day_(United_States)） Highlighted the flag of the United States of America is composed of 13 red and white wide strip, the top left corner have a piece of blue small rectangle with 50 white star.
Rodrigo Martinez Bustamente ENGL-1302-P Research/Writing Lit. Analysis Homeland Security Semester 2 2013 03.29.13 Homeland security is an umbrella that covers multiple departments and service to ensure the security of American Citizens, locally, nationally, and internationally. Eleven days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Pennsylvania governor, Tom Ridge was appointed as the first Direct of the Office of Homeland Security in the White House. With the Passage of the Homeland Security Act by Congress in November 2002, the Department of Homeland Security formally came into being as stand-alone, Cabinet-level department to further coordinate and unify national homeland security efforts. The exact date that Homeland
At least 45 British ships arrived in the Lower New York Bay. Within the week, another group of about 130 ships arrived off Staten Island under the control of Admiral Richard General Howe, brother of General William General Howe, a man who did not agree in pursuing military confrontation with the colonists. By July 2d, British forces began to land at Staten Island. On July 6th, word reached New York and Washington that Congress had voted for independence just four days earlier. Immediately, Washington had brigades march onto the commons of the city to have the Declaration of Independence read aloud.
The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 states and the 13 stripes represent the thirteen British colonies that rebelled against the British monarchy and became the first states in the Union. The first 2 people who have designed the flag were Betsy Ross from Philadelphia and Fancies Hopkinson from New Jersey. Betsy Ross was the one who got credit for making the flag because she had a recite and Hopkins didn’t .
The colors of blue and white are traditional colors of the infantry. Organized in 1861 as the 2nd Battalion 12th Infantry, the regiment was in the Army of the Potomac and served in several engagements. The cedar tree commemorates the regiment’s baptism by fire at Cedar Mountain, 9 August 1862, where it performed its mission with such success as to receive special mention from General Prince, the brigade commander. The arrows of the crest and the rattlesnake skin, an Indian emblem of war, allude to the eight campaigns during the Indian Wars. The five-bastion Fort was the symbol of the 5th Corps at Santiago during the war with Spain.
|The choice of Washington’s site along the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers resulted from a compromise between Alexander Hamilton and northern states who| |wanted the new Federal government to assume Revolutionary War debts and Thomas Jefferson and southern states who wanted the capital placed in a | |location friendly to slave-holding agricultural interests. George Washington, the first president and namesake of the city, chose the site and | |appointed three commissioners to help prepare for the arrival of the new government in 1800. In 1800 the federal government consisted of 131 | |employees. Pierre Charles L’Enfant designed the city as a bold new capital with sweeping boulevards and ceremonial spaces reminiscent of Paris
Americans have stood for the U.S. flag since June 14, 1777, the day the Continental Congress declared, “that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” In the article I read about the flag, it gave reasons. The article is called, “5 reasons we stand for the flag”, it stated that we stand for the flag today, not to please ourselves but to honor those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. It stated,” that more than 1.2 million Americans have died because of war.” It also said, “we stand for the flag not to focus on what divides us but what unites us, which is being an American.” (5 reasons we stand for the flag). “The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt The just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles.”
When the original 13 American colonies declared independence, and became a republic based on popular sovereignty, any person in the name of the people acquired the authority to initiate such writs. The U.S. Constitution includes the Habeas Corpus procedures in the Suspension Clause in Article 1, section 9, which states that the Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion that may harm the public’s safety. The suspension of the Habeas Corpus has occurred several times in U.S history, signed by Presidents Abraham Lincoln, George W, Bush and Barack Obama. On April 27, 1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspended the Habeas Corpus during the American Civil War, in response to riots and local militia actions, and the threat of Maryland seceding from the union leaving Washington D.C surrounded by hostile territory. On October 17 2006, President Bush signed a law suspending the right of the Habeas Corpus to persons determined by the U.S. to be an enemy combatant in the global war on terror.