Tantasqua Regional High School - Tantasquan Yearbook (Sturbridge, MA)

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SS DTUPEPER MINUTE GRE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FLAG CULPEPER FLAG — 1775 ALSO CALLED “‘SERAPIS” FLAG. GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS ORIGINATED BY ONE OF THE EARLY RATTLESNAKE FLAGS CARRIED BY THE MINUTE MEN BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AT COURT OF LOUIS XVI BENNINGTON FLAG — 1777 FIRST STARS AND STRIPES FLAG OF VICTORY OF THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS UNITED EMBLEM OF INDEPENDENCE SAID TO HAVE BEEN ORIGINATED BY GEORGE WASHINGTON FOLLOWING ACT OF CONGRESS OF JUNE 14, 1777. THE FLAG OF 1818 “OLD GLORY” SHOWING RETURN TO THIRTEEN STRIPES AND ADDITIONAL STARS IN NAME GIVEN BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM DRIVER, COMMANDING THE BRIG CANTON “CHARLES DAGGETT” IN 1831 s FIRST CONFEDERATE FLAG “STARS AND BARS’ USED FROM MARCH 1861 TO MAY 1863 - w «WW 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 WAR can Banners

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Louisiana Purchase (April 30, 1803) ul ) AY ’ %,, ae Mate, yavntseoes Ist Transcontinental Railroad (1869) : 4 “The Alamo, San Antonio Texas cee (Te pendence day March 2, 1836) THE CHANGING NATION Admitted to the 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 Original 13 Colonies AWAIL (50th state) ALASKA (49th state) Admitted to the Union in 1959 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 AN APPEAL TO GOD CONTINENTAL FLAG LIBERTY TREE FLAG — 1776 FIRST NAVY STARS AND STRIPES CARRIED IN 1775-1777. SHWOING PINE TREE, SYMBOL OF THE PINETREE COMES FROM COINS OF THE IN ABSENCE OF SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENT OF STARS BY CONGRESS, JUNE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY, IN PLACE OF THE CROSSES OF ST. GEORGE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS, 1652 14, 1777. 1T WAS CUSTOMARY FOR NAVY TO PLACE THE STARS IN FORM AND ST. ANDREW OF CROSSES OF ST. GEORGE AND ST. ANDREW FLAG OF THE THIRD MARYLAND — 1778 JOHN PAUL JONES “STARRY FLAG FLAG OF THE WAR OF 1812 (1812-1814) CARRIED AT THE BATTLE OF COWPENS JANUARY, 1778 AND USED AS RESCUED FROM THE SEA BY JAMES BAYARD STAFFORD DURING SHOWING FIFTEEN STARS AND FIFTEEN BARS AS CHANGED UPON COLORS OF AMERICAN LAND FORCES UNTIL MEXICAN WAR BATTLE BETWEEN BON HOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS ADMISSION OF VERMONT zkareaenknkre axe xzxeekekeaeakek kext w erenaeneree xX aX “ Ky Lo FREMONT, THE PATHFINDER'S FLAG — 40's FLAG OF THE MEXICAN WAR — 1845 COMMODORE PERRY’S FLAG — 1854 EMBLEM THAT BLAZED THE TRAIL FOR THE COVERED WAGON NOT ACTUALLY USED AS REGIMENTAL COLORS BY TROOPS BUT AS FLAG THE FLAG THAT OPENED JAPAN TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN THE ROARING 40'S. THE EARLY ENSIGN OF THE PLAINS OF CONQUEST AND OCCUPATION zaeraererr kent zkaaeernmw kt wreke keke kt zaxekekeaek kt ererwerk ere zaerkenknae kh CONFEDERATE BATTLE AND NAVY FLAG FLAG OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR — 1898 USED FROM MAY 1, 1863 TO END OF WAR, 1865. THE BATTLE FLAG WAS THE EMBLEM OF LIBERTY THAT BROUGHT FREEDOM TO CUBA SQUARE of Freedom « « « x