Tecumseh High School - Savage Yearbook (Tecumseh, OK)

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BENIAMIN FRANKLIN FLAG CULPEPER FLAG - 1775 ALSO CALLED SERAPIS FLAG GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS ORIGINATED BY ONE OF THE EARLY RATTLESNAKE FLAGS CARRICO BY THE MINUTE MEN BENIAMIN FRANKLIN AT COURT OF LOUIS XVI 0i iS, 76: FIRST STARS ANO 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 FLAG OF THE CIVIL WAR 1841 1865 THE STARS ANO STRIPES WITH THIRTY SIX STARS IN THE UNION CARRIED BY THE NORTHERN ARMIES DURING LATER YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR American Banners

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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 TRU. SYMBOL OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY. IN PLACE OF THE CROSSES OF ST GEORGE ANO ST ANDREW LIBERTY TREE FLA6 - 177$ THE PINE TREE COMES FROM COINS OF THE COLONY OF MASSACHUSETTS 1652 FIRST NAVY STARS AND 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 ANDREW FLAG Of THE THIRD MARYLAND - 1771 CARRIED AT THE BATTLE OF COWPENS JANUARY. 1778 AND USED AS COLORS OF AMERICAN LAND FORCES UNTIL MEXICAN WAR JOHN PAUL JONES STARRY FUG RESCUED FROM THE SEA 8Y JAMES BAYARO STAFFORD DURING BATTLE BETWEEN BON HOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS FUG OF THE WAR OF 1112 (1812-1114) SHOWING FIFTEEN STARS AND FIFTEEN BARS AS CHANGEO UPON ADMISSION OF VERMONT FREMONT. THE PATHFINDER'S FLAG - 40 » EMBLEM THAT BU2ED THE TRAIL FOR THE COVERED WAGON IN THE ROARING 40S THE URlY ENSIGN OF THE PUINS FUG Of THE MEXICAN WAR - 1S4S NOT ACTUALLY USED AS REGIMENTAL COLORS BY TROOPS BUT AS FUG OF CONQUEST AND OCCUPATION COMMODORE PERRY'S FUG - 1 54 THE FUG THAT OPENED JAPAN TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION CONFEDERATE BATTLE ANO NAVY FUG USED FROM MAY 1. 1863 TO END OF WAR 1865 THE BATTLE FUG WAS SQUARE THE EMBLEM OF LIBERTY THAT 8ROUGHT FREEDOM TO CUBA of Freedom