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Homeschool Fast Facts!
| United States - National Motto | |
| The Motto of the United States is: "In God We Trust." These words were originally put on coins during the Civil War (1861-1865.) Its use on other US coins was inconsistent until 1955, when Congress ordered it to appear on all coins and paper money. | |
| United States - The Flag | |
Known unofficially as the "Stars and Stripes,"
the flag of the United States has 50 stars (one star for each state) and 13 stripes (one stripe for each of the original 13 states.)
Congress assigned symbolic meanings to the colors:
The flag of 1777 was used until 1795 when the Congress ordered a new flag with two additional stars and two additional stripes to represent the new states of Vermont (14) and Kentucky (15.) In 1818, the Congress passed an act to reduce the number of stripes to 13 and that a new star be added for every new state. The last star was added in 1960 for Hawaii, the 50th state. | |
 Flag of 1777 |
 Flag of 1795 |
 Flag of 1818 |
| U.S. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag |
| "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." |
| U.S. National Anthem: "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| "The Star-Spangled Banner" is a poem by Francis Scott Key in 1814. He wrote it as he watched British warships bombard Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Maryland, during the war of 1812. In 1931, it became the National Anthem by an act of Congress. The Anthem has four stanzas, but the first one is the most commonly sung. The music for the "The Star-Spangled Banner" was originally used in "Anacreon in Heaven." |
| "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, through 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. O 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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| The Great Seal of the United States |
| The Great Seal of the United States depicts an American bald eagle with a ribbon in its mouth bearing the words "e pluribus unum" which means "out of many, one." The eagle bears a shield having 13 narrow stripes, 7 white alternating with 6 red, which are topped by a broad stripe of blue. In the eagle's talons are the arrows of war and the olive branch of peace. On the back of the Great Seal is an unfinished pyramid with an eye - "the eye of Providence" - above it. The Great Seal was approved by Congress on June 20, 1782. |
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