Sheridan High School - Trailblazer Yearbook (Sheridan, MT)

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FLAG ALSO CALLEO SERAPIS FLAG GENERALLY ACCEPUO AS ORIGINATED BY BENIAMIN FRANKLIN AT COURT OF LOUIS XVI CULPEPER FLAG - 1775 ONE OF THE EARLY RATTLESNAKE FLAGS CARRIED 8Y THE MINUTE MEN FIRST STARS AND STRIPES UNITED EMBLEM OF INDEPENDENCE SAID TO HAVE BEEN ORIGINATED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON FOLLOWING ACT OF CONGRESS OF JUNE 14 1777 OLD GLORY- NAME GIVEN BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM DRIVER. COMMANDING THE BRIG CHARLES DAGGETT' IN 1831. . J FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR 1861-1865 THE STARS AND STRIPES WITH THIRTY SIX STARS IN THE UNION CARRIEO BY THE NORTHERN ARMIES DURING LATER YEARS OF THE CIVI WAR Banner

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Louisiana Purchase (April 30.1803) lsl Transcontinental Rarlroatf ( %tl |1 Gold Otscovercd m Coloma. California Oan 12.1847) The Alamo. San Antonio Texas (Texas Independence day March ?. 1836) THE CHANGING NATION 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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CONTINENTAL FLAG CARRIED IN 1775 1777 SHWOING PINE TREE SYMBOL OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY. IN PUCE OF THE CROSSES OF ST GEORGE ANO ST ANDREW LIBERTY TREE AN APPEAL TO GOD LIBERTY TREE FLAG - 1776 THE PINETREE COMES FROM COINS OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS. 1652 i FUG OF THE THIRD MARYLAND - 1771 CARRIED AT THE 8ATTLE OF COWPENS JANUARY 1778 ANO USEO AS COLORS OF AMERICAN LAND FORCES UNTIL MEXICAN WAR JOHN PAUL JONES STARRY FUG RESCUEO FROM THE SU BY JAMES BAYARD STAFFORO DURING BATTLE BETWEEN BON HOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS FREMONT. THE PATHFINDER’S FLAG - 40's EMBLEM THAT BU2EO THE TRAIL FOR THE COVERED WAGON IN THE ROARING AO S THE URLY ENSIGN OF THE PUINS FUG OF THE MEXICAN WAR - 18A5 NOT ACTUALLY USED AS REGIMENTAL COLORS BY TROOPS BUT AS FUG OF CONQUEST AND OCCUPATION CONFEDERATE BATTLE AND NAVY FLAG USED FROM MAY 1. 1863 TO END OF WAR. 1865 THE BATTLE FUG WAS SQUARE FLAG OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR - 1898 THE EMBLEM OF LIBERTY THAT BROUGHT FREEDOM TO CUBA of Freedom FIRST NAVY STARS ANO STRIPES IN ABSENCE OF SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF STARS BY CONGRESS JUNE 14. 1777 IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR NAVY TO PUCE THE STARS IN FORM OF CROSSES OF ST GEORGE AND ST ANOREW FLAG OF THE WAR OF 1812(1812-1114) SHOWING FIFTEEN STARS AND FIFTEEN BARS AS CHANGED UPON ADMISSION OF VERMONT COMMODORE PERRY’S FUG - 1854 THE FUG THAT OPENED JAPAN TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION -Jc