By: Amanda Guernsey

ITEC 2120
Spring 2006
 In 1777, our first national flag was designed by Betsy
Ross.

 Our flag has gone through many changes, but

currently has 50 white stars and 13 stripes seven
are red and six are white.

 The stripes represent the 13 original colonies

and the 50 stars represent the 50 states in the
USA.

 Every time a new state joins the union a

star is added to our flag.
 Flag Day recognizes the
day in June 1777 when
the Continental Congress
adopted the "Stars and
Stripes" as the official
flag of the United States.

 For the first time in 1877

Flag Day was observed,
the 100th anniversary of
the adoption of our
country's red-white-and-
blue banner.
 Beginning on July 4, 1776
our Founding Fathers
(Benjamin Franklin, John
Adams, and Thomas
Jefferson) created the Great
Seal of the United States.

 The seal pictures an

American bald eagle holding
a ribbon in its beak; the
ribbon has the motto of the
USA "Out of many, one."
 The eagle is grasping an olive branch
in one foot (symbolizing peace) and
13 arrows in the other (the 13 stands
for the original 13 colonies and the
arrows symbolize the acceptance of
the need to go to war to protect the
country).

 The shield in front of the eagle has

13 red and white stripes
(representing the original 13
colonies) with a blue bar above it (it
 Native to America the bald eagle is a brilliant bird of
prey.

 The bald eagle has white feathers on it’s head so

it is not really bald.

 The eagles got its name “ bald” from an old-

fashioned English word meaning white.

 Since 1782 the bald eagle has been the

 Located on Liberty Island in New
York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty
is a gigantic sculpture.

 The people of France gave the

USA the monument as a gift to
show their thankfulness for our
help in the during the
American Revolution.

 “Liberty Enlightening the

World” is the statue’s
formal name.

 In Liberty’s right hand

she holds a torch that
symbolizes liberty of the
USA.
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details
 The Liberty Bell has become
the symbol of freedom in the
United States.

 This gigantic bell is made of

bronze and is the length of
your arm and is as wide as
your fingernail.

 During a test ringing the bell

cracked and it was made
again twice in 1753.
 The bell was originally called the State House
Bell or the Province Bell. The bell was first
called the Liberty Bell around 1839.

 The last time the bell rang was on February

23, 1846 for George Washington's birthday
celebration.

 Today, the Liberty Bell hangs in

Philadelphia for everyone to see.
 Located in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C., the
Lincoln Memorial honors our 16th President of the
United States, Abraham Lincoln.

 A huge statue made of blocks of marble of Lincoln

sitting is situated inside the building.

 Construction on the Lincoln Memorial began on

Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, 1915; the date
of the dedication was May 30, 1922.
 Abraham Lincoln, was the 16th
President of the United States of
America.

 He served as President from

March 4, 1861, until April 15,
1865.

 Lincoln was elected President in

1860. During Lincoln's
presidency, the Southern states
left the Union because Lincoln
and the Northern states were
against slavery.
 Six weeks after becoming President, the Civil
War began. In this war, the Northern states
fought the Southern states.

 The Civil War lasted from 1861 until 1865.

 President Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, by

John Wilkes Booth (an actor). Lincoln had been
attending a play at Ford's Theater in
Washington D.C. Lincoln died the next morning.
He was the first US president ever assassinated.
 The Washington Monument is an obelisk-shaped building
in Washington D.C. that was built to honor the first
President of the United States of America, George
Washington.

 The architect who designed Washington, D.C., Pierre

Charles L'Enfant, planned in 1783 to have a well-known
statue honoring George Washington near the White
House and Capitol.
 The exterior of the Washington
Monument was completed on December
6, 1884; it was opened to the public on
October 9, 1888 (after the Interior was
completed). The giant obelisk contains
36,491 blocks and weighs 90,854 tons.
 George Washington (1732-
1799) was the first
President of the United
States of America.

 He served as President from

April 30, 1789, until March
4, 1797.

 Washington was
unanimously elected
President of the United
States of America by
 Washington's first inauguration took place in
New York City, New York. His second
inauguration took place in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.

 Washington refused a third Presidential term,

saying in his farewell speech that a longer rule
would give one man too much power.

 Washington died on December 14, 1799, at his

home, Mt. Vernon, located in Fairfax County,
Virginia.
 For over 200 years, the White House has been the official home of
the President of the United States.

 It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.,

the capital city of the USA.

 White House was designed by the Irish-American architect James

Hoban, who had won a architectural design competition in 1792.

 The White House was originally built from 1792 to 1800. It was
burned down by British soldiers during the War of 1812, but was
rebuilt from 1815 to 1817.
 The Pledge of
Allegiance is a promise
of faithfulness.

 The words to the pledge

are as follows:
I pledge
allegiance
to the flag
of the United
States of America
and to the
Republic
for which it
stands,
one nation,
under God,
 The Star Spangled Banner is our national
anthem or song of the United States.

 The words to the song were written in 1814

as a poem by Francis Scott Key.

 He watched a night-time battle between

England and America; He was filled with
happiness when the American flag was still
flying the next morning.
 These are the words Key wrote
for the song:
Oh, 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, thro' the perilous fight;

O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.

And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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