![]() ![]() But-as the story goes-a year before, Robert Heft, a 17-year-old student at Lancaster (Ohio) High, was thinking ahead and guessed Hawaii would be admitted soon after Alaska. ![]() When Alaska became state 49, President Dwight Eisenhower received loads of ideas for a new flag, most of them featuring 49 stars (along with suggestions like a dove of peace, eagles, and maps). The 50-star pattern of the American flag was supposedly designed by a high school student. The Flag Act of 1818 specifies that the star addition “shall take effect on the fourth day of July ” Montana, Washington, and Idaho were also admitted before July 4, so we skipped from a 38- to a 43-star flag. ![]() The reason for the miscalculation: Some thought North Dakota and South Dakota were going to be admitted as one state.Īnd there wasn’t even a 40-star version. A 39-star version is not among them, but that didn’t stop at least one enterprising flag manufacturer from producing one for the marketplace. flag, each with a different number of stars. There have been 27 official versions of the U.S. The Dakotas threw off the star-design plans for the American flag. Sumter flag, which had stars arranged in a layout that looks kind of like one of the aliens from Space Invaders the 38-star concentric creation, which had stars in concentric circles and others. There was the 26-star “star” flag, which configured stars of varying sizes into a star-shaped layout the 33-star Ft. With this lack of official guidelines, some designers got creative. However, one thing remained uncodified: star layout. ![]() Some of the American flag’s star fields have been pretty strange looking.Īs of 1818, conventions concerning the numbers of stars and stripes were cemented and remain in place today. The solution: revert to 13 to represent the original 13 colonies, and let the stars do the heavy lifting. continued to add new states, there was concern about having to continually add additional stripes. The American flag hasn’t always had 13 stripes.Ī few years after welcoming Vermont and Kentucky-states 14 and 15-into the union (in 17, respectively), a new version of the flag was created that had 15 stars and 15 stripes. The first person to have publicly claimed design credit was New Jersey’s Francis Hopkinson in 1780, who had hoped (in vain) to earn a "quarter cask of the public wine" for his efforts. In fact, Ross’s name didn’t even come up in conjunction with the deed until the 1870s, more than 30 years after her death. She may have sewn quite a few in her day, but there is no actual evidence Betsy Ross was the person responsible for the design of the American flag. Betsy Ross might not be as tied to the American flag as we thought. Within two weeks, a resolution was passed, finalizing the flag as a creation with 13 stars and 13 stripes. Green asked for help from the government, throwing in a payment of three strings of wampum- beads made from shells-to sweeten the deal. This was a cause for concern for Thomas Green, a Native American who wanted to bring an official flag to his Nation for protection when they visited Philadelphia. was in the midst of the Revolutionary War and still waffling on the exact look of its flag. The modern American flag was prompted by a payment of “three strings of wampum.”īy 1777, the U.S. If you’re wondering what that date has to do with the Stars and Stripes, why the flag looks the way it does, who came up with it, who paid for it, and what you can and can’t do with it-read on. ![]()
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