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The flag of the United States of America regularly denoted to as the American flag, is the national symbol of the country. It comprises of total thirteen alike stripes of red followed by white, with a blue rectangle in the corner that alluded to explicitly as the "Union," bearing fifty little, white, five-pointed stars masterminded in nine balance flat columns, where lines of six stars swap with lines of five stars. The 50 stars on the flag speak to the fifty separate legislative states of the nation, and the 13 stripes speak to the thirteen British provinces, which pronounced liberty from the hands of Great Britain and got assimilated into the main US landmass. Nicknames for the flag are as follows: Old Glory, The Stars and Stripes, and The Star-Spangled Banner.
The Flag Code, which formalizes and binds together the conventional routes in which we offer regard to the flag, likewise contains particular directions on how the flag is not to be utilized. They are:
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The appropriate static vertical display of American Flag. The canton (blue box containing stars) should always be in the top left corner. |
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The primitive design of the current American flag is described by 4 U.S.C.; 4 U.S.C. drafts the inclusion of new stars to show new states. The blueprint gives the following values:
The representation of color
The U.S. flag has experienced various progressions since the primary authority flag of 1777. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress passed the principal Flag Act, which said that the flag would be comprised of thirteen substituting red and white stripes and thirteen stars of white color on a blue field. These stars have been added to the flag as new states join the union. Presently, the flag contains 50 stars.
Ever ask why American flag colors are red, white, and blue? While the flag's hues did not have a particular importance at the time, the hues were huge for the Great Seal of 1782.
Initially, the hues red, white and blue had neither particular concern nor representation when the flag was received in 1777. In any case, the hues in the Great Seal of the United States had specific implications.
White: Signifies virtue and purity
Red: Signifies valor and grit
Blue: Signifies Vigilance, steadiness, and equity
What are the determinations for the shades of the flag?
In the Pantone framework, the hues are Blue PMS 282 and Red PMS 193.
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White | 88.7 | −0.2 | 5.4 | 2.5Y | 8.8/0.7 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | #FFFFFF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Old Glory Red | 33.9 | 51.2 | 24.7 | 5.5R | 3.3/11.1 | 39.9 | 57.3 | 28.7 | 0.698 | 0.132 | 0.203 | #B22234 | 0.196 | 1 | 0.757 | 0.118 | ||
Old Glory Blue | 23.2 | 13.1 | −26.4 | 8.2PB | 2.3/6.1 | 26.9 | 11.5 | −30.3 | 0.234 | 0.233 | 0.43 | #3C3B6E | 0.886 | 0.851 | 0.243 | 0.122 |
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Safe | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | #FFFFFF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
U.S. Emb., London | 193 C | 42.1 | 64.4 | 26.7 | 0.756 | 0.076 | 0.238 | #C1133D | 0.165 | 1 | 0.678 | 0.063 | |
281 C | 15.4 | 7 | −41.8 | 0 | 0.149 | 0.388 | #002663 | 1 | 0.906 | 0.388 | 0.231 | ||
U.S. Emb., Stockholm | 186 C | 44.1 | 67.8 | 37.9 | 0.8 | 0.048 | 0.185 | #CC0C2F | 0.122 | 1 | 0.796 | 0.035 | |
288 C | 18 | 7.6 | −50.3 | 0 | 0.172 | 0.466 | #002C77 | 1 | 0.863 | 0.357 | 0.141 | ||
CA Mil. Dept. | 200 C | 41.1 | 64.2 | 30.8 | 0.745 | 0.051 | 0.203 | #BE0D34 | 0.169 | 1 | 0.749 | 0.074 |
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American Flag History (Old American Flag)
Lots of alterations took place since the concept of National Flag just flourished to the time when its proper execution entered the scene. When 1775 came to an end, the Second Continental Congress maneuvered the idea that an Army, a Navy, and a Marine troop should get authorized. There evolved the necessity of a new flag to stand for the Congress and the newborn nation, primarily known as the United Colonies.
On January 1, 1776, the Continental Army was rearranged as per a Congressional determination which set American strengths under George Washington's control. On that New Year's Day, the Continental Army was laying attack to Boston which had been assumed control by the British Army. Washington requested the Grand Union Flag rose over his base at Prospect Hill. It had thirteen interchange red and white stripes and the British Union Jack in the upper left-hand corner (the canton).
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1707-1801 | Flag of the British East India Company | |
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This historical sojourn of first American flag set in the year of 1777 when the country had just fetched its liberty from the chain of European colonization. On June 14, 1777, the leading catalyst of the freedom movement, Continental Congress conceded an act, ascertaining an authorized flag for the fledgling nation. The decree affirmed that the flag will showcase thirteen stripes, and will have alternative stripes of red and white. The American flag stars will represent the newly liberated unions and the white will depict the new constellation.
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1777 | Francis Hopkinson's flag for the U.S. Navy, featuring 13 six-pointed stars arranged in rows. | |
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14 June 1777–1 May 1795 (flag law) | 13 star flag known as Betsy Ross flag with proportion of 19:10. | |
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Francis Hopkinson's Flag
Presumably, Francis Hopkinson designed the 1777 flag while he was the in a reputed position in the Continental Navy Board. Notably, he was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Among the other claimers, he was the one who claimed his authority in his lifetime. Though there are throngs of debates and doubts, have shrouded the history Hopkinson has been honored for his design used in the U.S. Navy.
Claiming his recognition for his work, he sent several letters and bills to Congress, but the latest records say that he was only accredited for his creative ideas for the U.S. Navy flag. However, his sketches or any other convincing record had not been found yet. Still, scholars and historians grant his contribution behind the basic idea of American Flag.
Betsy Ross Flag (Original American Flag)
Nonetheless, the above story negates the legend of the Betsy Ross, which recommends that she sewed the primary American flag stars and Stripes signal in the Spring of 1776 and at times the flag is called by her name or Betsy Ross flag. Besides, a letter from the War Board to George Washington on May 10, 1779, records that there was still no outline set up for a national banner for the Army's utilization in the fight.
She is broadly credited with making the main American Flag. As indicated by family convention, upon a visit from General George Washington, president of the Continental Army, in 1776, Ross changed the state of the stars he had outlined for the banner from six-indicated to five-pointed. In any case, there is no factual proof or other recorded verbal custom to substantiate this account of the original American Flag, and it gives the idea that the story initially surfaced in the works of her grandson in the 1870s (a century sometime later), with no specified documentation from prior decades.
By her family's affirmation, Ross maintained an upholstery business, and she had never made a banner as of the gathered visit in June 1776. Furthermore, her grandson conceded that his pursuit through the Journals of Congress and other authority records neglected to discover validation of his grandma's story.
Studies by the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution noticed that the tale of Betsy Ross making the principal American flag for General George Washington went into American cognizance in1876. In 1870, Ross' grandson, William J. Canby, introduced an exploration paper to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in which he guaranteed that his grandma had "made with her hands the primary flag" of the United States. Notably, these stories insist on calling the U.S.A flag also by the name Betsy Ross flag.
Betsy Ross was advanced as a patriotic symbol for young ladies and an image of girls' commitments to American history. Betsy Ross was just one of a few flag producers in Philadelphia for the Continental Army, alongside numerous.
Designer of the First Stars and Stripes
Rebecca Young, who is archived to have made the before Grand Union Flag is another name who can claim the credit for the design of the upper corner canton and thirteen rotating red and white stripes for the "Union Colonies."
Rebecca Young's little girl Mary Young Pickersgill made the popular flag of 15 stars and stripes in 1813 started at her home and completed on the floor of a close-by bottling works, conveyed to the authority, on Fort McHenry in Baltimore, amid the War of 1812.
Infrequently throughout the decades, there has been some discussion and contradiction between the relative benefits and chronicled exactnesses of the two flag-production customs and authentic locales in Philadelphia and Baltimore. It is suspected that Ross' lone commitment to the flag plan was to change the 6-guided stars toward the simpler 5-pointed stars. Different antiquarians acknowledge the resulting claim by Francis Hopkinson, an individual from the Continental Congress, who likewise composed the Great Seal of the United States as having proposed plans utilized for the early American flag.
As indicated by talk, the Washington family ensign, appeared in a fifteenth-century window of Selby Abbey, was the source of the stars and stripes.
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Used following the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812 | Star spangled banner flag with 15 stars and 15 stripes | |
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1912 to 1959 | The 48-star US flag, the second longest used USA flag. | |
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N/A | December 3, 1775 - June 14, 1777 | 11/2 years |
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Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia | June 14, 1777 – May 1, 1795 | 18 years |
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Vermont, Kentucky | May 1, 1795 – July 3, 1818 | 23 years |
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Alabama, Maine | July 4, 1820 – July 3, 1822 | 2 year |
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Missouri | July 4, 1822 – July 3, 1836 1831 term "Old Glory" coined | 14 year |
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Arkansas | July 4, 1836 – July 3, 1837 | 1 year |
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Michigan | July 4, 1837 – July 3, 1845 | 8 year |
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Florida | July 4, 1845 – July 3, 1846 | 1 year |
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Texas | July 4, 1846 – July 3, 1847 | 1 year |
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Iowa | July 4, 1847 – July 3, 1848 | 1 year |
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Wisconsin | July 4, 1848 – July 3, 1851 | 3 year |
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California | July 4, 1851 – July 3, 1858 | 7 year |
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Oregon | July 4, 1859 – July 3, 1861 | 2 year |
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Oklahoma | July 4, 1908 – July 3, 1912 | 14 year |
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Arizona, New Mexico | July 4, 1912 – July 3, 1959 | 47 year |
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Hawaii | July 4, 1960 – present | 56 year |
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The flag ought to be raised energetically and brought down gradually and ceremoniously. Commonly it ought to be displayed just amongst dawn and nightfall. It ought to be lit up if displayed during the evening.
The flag of the United States of America is saluted as it is raised and brought down. The salute is held until the flag is unsnapped from the halyard or through the last note of music, whichever is the longest.
At the point when conveyed in a parade, the flag ought to be to one side of the marchers. At the point when different flags are conveyed, the flag of the United States might be focused on the others or conveyed on their right side. At the point when the flag goes in a parade, or when it is lifted or brought down, all ought to confront the flag and salute.
The Salute
To salute, all people prepare for action. Those in uniform give the suitable formal salute. Nationals not in uniform salute by setting their right hand over the heart and men with head cover ought to evacuate it and hold it to left shoulder, hand over the heart.
At the point when the flag is displayed from a staff anticipating from a window, overhang, or a building, the union ought to be at the pinnacle of the staff unless the flag is at half-staff.
When it is displayed from a similar flagpole with another flag - of a state, group, society or Scout unit - the flag of the United States should dependably be at the top aside from that the congregation flag might be hovered over the flag amid chapel administrations for Navy staff when directed by a Naval minister on a ship adrift.
At the point when flown with flags of states, groups, or social orders on independent flag shafts which are of a similar stature and in a straight line, the flag of the United States is constantly set in the position of respect - to its privilege.
At the point when flown with the national pennant of different nations, every flag must be displayed from a different shaft of a similar stature. Every flag ought to be a similar size. They ought to be raised and brought down at the same time. The flag of one country may not be displayed over that of another country.