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The first official flag resembling the "Stars and Stripes" was the Continental Navy ensign (often referred to as the Continental Union Flag, first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) used between 1775 and 1777.
During the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America began to use its first flag, the Stars and Bars, on March 5, 1861. Soon after, the first Confederate Battle Flag was also flown. The design of the Stars and Bars varied over the following two years.
Starting in 1819, the updated flag becomes legal on the Fourth of July following the date of admission. Help Support USHistory.org! Buy a flag or poster! A timeline of the evolution and development of the official U.S. flag over the course of U.S. History.
No official documentation has been found to confirm that Betsy Ross was responsible for creating the very first flag, but it is conceivable that Colonel George Ross—a signer of the Declaration...
The first “official” flag was “the Continental Colors,” also known as the “Grand Union Flag,” which consisted of thirteen red and white stripes and the United Kingdom’s flag in the upper-left-hand corner, also known as the canton.
Although legend holds that Betsy Ross made the first American flag in 1776 after being asked to do so by Washington, primary sources backing up that assertion are scarce.
The first Flag Act, adopted on June 14, 1777, created the original United States flag of thirteen stars and thirteen stripes. The Star-Spangled Banner has fifteen stars and fifteen stripes as provided for in the second Flag Act approved by Congress on January 13, 1794.
Betsy Ross (born January 1, 1752, Gloucester City, New Jersey [U.S.]—died January 30, 1836, Philadelphia) was an American seamstress who, according to family stories, fashioned and helped design the first flag of the United States.
The myth that Betsy Ross created the first American flag took off in the popular imagination and was enshrined in paintings like this Henry Mosler work, "The Birth of the Flag," depicting Ross...
Betsy Ross, best known for making the first American flag, was born Elizabeth Griscom in Philadelphia on January 1, 1752. A fourth-generation American and the great-granddaughter of a carpenter...