Gainesville State College - Fathom Yearbook (Gainesvbille, GA)

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FLAG ALSO CALLED SERAPIS FLAG GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS ORIGINATED BY BENJAMIN IRANKLIN AT COURT OF LOUIS XVI DONT TREAD ON ME £ tj ummam mm HJJ2JI22J :76: ■■■■■■■■■ ■ ™ THE FLAG OF ISIS SHOWING RETURN TO THIRTEEN STRIPES AND ADDITION: CANTON FIRST STARS AND STRIPES UNITED EMBLEM OF INDEPENDENCE SAID TO HAVE SEEN ORIGINATED 8 GEORGE WASHINGTON FOLLOWING ACT OF CONGRESS OF IUNE 14 1771 OLD GLORY NAME GIVEN B CAPTAIN WILLIAM DRIVER COMMANDING THE BRIG CHARLES DAGGETT IN 1831 t FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 THE STARS AND STRIPES WITH THIRTY SIX STARS IN THE UNION CARRIED BY THE NORTHERN ARMIES DURING LATER YEARS OF THE CIVIL can Banners

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Gold Discovered in Cotoma. California (Jan. 12, 1847 The Alamo. San Antonio Texas (Texas Independence day March 2, 1836) THE CHANGING NATION HAWAII (50th state) y ALASKA (49th state) Admitted to the Union in 1959 Admitted to Ihe Union in 1959 Ownership of land had been just a dream to most of the colonists from feudal England. With the great expanse of cheap land opening up in the West, the dream became reality. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 opened the first sizable frontier in the Midwest, but the nation was not ready for it yet. It took a growing market in the East, where land was getting high-priced and scarce, and develop- ment of good transportation, to really start the frontier movement. The Gold Rush caused hordes of settlers to take various routes to the Pacific Coast and its yellow riches. The railroads brought farmers and ranchers, along with the miners, who decided to stop all along the routes and build their homes. Railroads were instrumental in the quick civilization of the West, bringing people in num- bers so large that the resentful Indians were finally pushed back into unwanted and infertile areas . America became a haven for immigrants from every na- tion as freedom beckoned them to the teeming cities of the East, the plains, and the rich west coast farmlands Sick of the Civil War and with their own lands divided up and lost, many Southerners set out to begin again in the virgin territories. Westering soon became the national tradition as North and South moved together toward a new life. Americanism was advanced socially, by the hard-working, bare-fisted types who settled the frontiers.

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LIBERTY TREE AIWT AN APPEAL TO GOD CONTINENTAL FLAG CARRIED IN 1775 1777 SHWOING PINE TREE SYMBOL OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY IN PLACE OF THE CROSSES OF ST GEORGE AND ST ANDREW LIBERTY TREE FLAG - 1776 •IE CONIES FROM COINS OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS 1652 FIRST NAVY STARS AND STRIPES IN ABSENCE OF SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF STARS BY CONGRESS. IUNE 14 1777 IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR NAVY TO PLACE THE STARS IN FORM OF CROSSES OF ST GEORGE AND ST ANDREA FLAG OF THE THIRD MARYLAND - 1778 CARRIED AT THE BATTLE OF COWPENS JANUARY 1778 AND USED AS COLORS OF AMERICAN LAND FORCES UNTIL MEXICAN WAR JOHN PAUL IONES STARRY FLAG 1 ' RESCUED FROM THE SEA BY IAMES BAYARD STAFFORD DURING BATTLE BETWEEN BON HOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS FLAG OF THE WAR OF 1812 (1812 1814) SHOWING FIFTEEN STARS AND FIFTEEN BARS AS CHANGED UPON ADMISSION OF VERMONT ! ■ MK ma m FREMONT. THE PATHFINDERS FLAG - 40s EMBLEM THAT BLAZED THE TRAIL FOR THE COVERED WAGON IN THE ROARING 40 S THE EARLY ENSIGN OF THE PLAINS FLAG OF THE MEXICAN WAR - 1845 NOT ACTUALLY USED AS REGIMENTAL COLORS BY TROOPS BUT AS FLAG OF CONQUEST AND OCCUPATION COMMODORE PERRY S FUG - 1854 THE FLAG THAT OPENED 1APAN TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION CONFEDERATE BATTLE AND NAVY FLAG USED FROM MAY 1 1863 TO END Of WAR. 1865 THE BATTLE FLAG WAS SQUARE FLAG OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR - 1898 THE EMBLEM OT LIBERTY THAT BROUGHT FREEOOM TO CUBA of Freedom