Flags of the World,
United States and its State Flags,
Part 2 (Missouri to Wyoming)

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United States and its State Flags,
Part 1 (Alabama to Mississippi)

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United States and its State Flags,
Part 2 (Missouri to Wyoming)

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United States National Flag

Some of the significant historical points of interest about the United States flag:

• 1776 (January 1): The Grand Union flag is displayed on Prospect Hill. It had 13 alternate red and white stripes and the British Union Jack in the upper left-hand corner (the canton).
• 1776: Betsy Ross reported that she sewed the first American flag.
• 1777 (June 14): Continental Congress adopted the following: Resolved: that the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. (stars represent Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island).
• 1787: Captain Robert Gray carried the flag around the world on his sailing vessel (around the tip of South America, to China, and beyond). He discovered the Columbia river and named it after his boat The Columbia. His discovery was the basis of America’s claim to the Oregon Territory.
• 1795: Flag with 15 stars and 15 stripes (Vermont, Kentucky).
• 1814 (September 14): Francis Scott Key wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner”. It officially became the national anthem in 1931.
• 1818: Flag with 20 stars and 13 stripes (it remained at 13 after this) (Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi) Act of April 4, 1818; provided for 13 stripes and one star for each state, to be added to the flag on the 4th of July following the admission of each new state.
• 1819: Flag with 21 stars (Illinois).
• 1820: Flag with 23 stars (Alabama, Maine); first flag on Pikes Peak.
• 1822: Flag with 24 stars (Missouri).
• 1836: Flag with 25 stars (Arkansas).
• 1837: Flag with 26 stars (Michigan).
• 1845: Flag with 27 stars (Florida).
• 1846: Flag with 28 stars (Texas).
• 1847: Flag with 29 stars (Iowa).
• 1848: Flag with 30 stars (Wisconsin).
• 1851: Flag with 31 stars (California).
• 1858: Flag with 32 stars (Minnesota).
• 1859: Flag with 33 stars (Oregon).
• 1861: Flag with 34 stars; (Kansas); first Confederate Flag (Stars and Bars) adopted in Montgomery, Alabama.
• 1863: Flag with 35 stars (West Virginia).
• 1865: Flag with 36 stars (Nevada).
• 1867: Flag with 37 stars (Nebraska).
• 1877: Flag with 38 stars (Colorado).
• 1890: Flag with 43 stars (North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho).
• 1891: Flag with 44 stars (Wyoming).
• 1892: “Pledge of Allegiance” first published in a magazine called The Youth’s Companion. Authorship was claimed for James B. Upham and Francis Bellamy. In 1939 the United States Flag Association ruled that Bellamy was the author of the original pledge. The words, “under God” were added on June 14, 1954. The pledge: 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.
• 1896: Flag with 45 stars (Utah).
• 1908: Flag with 46 stars (Oklahoma).
• 1909: Robert Peary places the flag his wife sewed at the North Pole.
• 1912: Flag with 48 stars (New Mexico, Arizona) Executive Order of President Taft dated June 24, 1912; established proportions of the flag and provided for arrangement of the stars in six horizontal rows of eight each, a single point of each star to be upward.
• 1931: Congress officially recognizes “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem of the United States. Its stirring words were written by Francis Scott Key.
• 1945: The flag that flew over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, was flown over the White House on August 14, when the Japanese accepted surrender terms.
• 1949 (August 3): President Harry Truman signed a bill requesting the President call for Flag Day (June 14) observance each year by proclamation.
• 1959: Flag with 49 stars (Alaska) Executive Order of President Dwight Eisenhower dated January 3, 1959; provided for the arrangement of the stars in seven rows of seven stars each, staggered horizontally and vertically. Executive Order of President Eisenhower dated August 21, 1959; provided for the arrangement of the stars in nine rows of stars staggered horizontally and eleven rows of stars staggered vertically.
• 1960: Flag with 50 stars (Hawaii).
• 1963: Flag placed on top of Mount Everest by Barry Bishop.
• 1969 (July 20): The American flag was placed on the moon by Neil Armstrong.

For an even greater perspective, see the 26-flag history of U.S. national flags.

Missouri

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Montana

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Nebraska

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Nevada

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"New Hampshire  

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New Jersey

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New Mexico

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New York

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North Carolina

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North Dakota

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Ohio

Ohio’s official flag was adopted by an act of the Ohio Legislature on May 9, 1902. The Ohio burgee, as the swallow-tailed design is properly called, was drawn by John Eisenmann, architect and designer for the Ohio State Pan-American Exposition Commission.

The Ohio flag has three red and two white horizontal stripes. At its staff end, in a blue triangular field whose apex is at the center of the middle red stripe, are 17 white, five-pointed stars grouped around a red disc superimposed upon a white circular area.

Mr. Eisenmann explained the Ohio flag’s symbolism most aptly: “The triangles formed by the main lines of the flag represent the hills and valleys as typified in the State Seal, and the stripes the roads and waterways. The stars, indicating the 13 original states of the Union, are grouped about the circle which represents the Northwest Territory; and that Ohio was the seventeenth state admitted into the Union is shown by adding four more stars. The white circle with its red center, not only represents the initial letter of Ohio, but is suggestive of its being the Buckeye State.”

Oklahoma

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Oregon

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Pennsylvania

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Rhode Island

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South Carolina

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South Dakota

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Tennessee

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Texas

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Utah

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Vermont

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Virginia

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Washington, District of Columbia (D.C.)

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Washington State

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West Virginia

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Wisconsin

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Wyoming

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