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The American Flag

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1. The history goes back to the thirteen British (

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2. Each colony had its own (

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3. But, during the (

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4. It had red and white (

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5. And it had a blue (

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6. Red was for honor, white for innocence and blue for (

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7. Inside the blue square were the red (

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8. The American colonists declared their (

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9. Then, on June fourteenth, seventeen seventy-seven, the Continental Congress approved the design of a (

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10. Thirteen red and white stripes remained. But now thirteen white stars replaced the British Union Jack inside the blue area. The stars were meant to represent 'a new (

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11. Two more stripes were added when two more states joined the (

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12. In eighteen eighteen, Congress passed a law to require that the flag return to thirteen stripes, to (

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13. But the number of stars (

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14. A delegate to the Continental Congress, Francis Hopkinson, took credit for the flag design. And tradition says a committee led by George Washington asked a woman with expert (

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15. Betsy Ross lived in Philadelphia, (

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