Wildwood Catholic High School - Annscript Yearbook (North Wildwood, NJ)

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liberty ®3or death DONT TREAD ON ME BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FLAG ALSO CALLED -SERAPIS ' FLAG. GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS ORIGINATED BY BENIAMIN FRANKLIN AT COURT OF LOUIS XVI CULPEPER FLAG - 1775 ONE OF THE EARLY RATTLESNAKE FUGS CARRIED BY 1HE MINUTE MEN r.ct a FIRST STARS AND STRIPES UNITEO 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 1861-1865 THE STARS ANO STRIPES WITH THIRTY SIX STARS IN THE UNION CARRIED BY THE NORTHERN ARMIES DURING UTER YEARS OF THE CIVIL WAR. Banners

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Louisiana Purchase (April 30,1803) ‘ %,»»' 1st Transcontinental Railroad(1869) Ori£inal 13 Colonies Gold Discovered in Coloma. California (Jan. 12.1847) The Alamo, San Antonio Texas (Texas Independence day March 2.1836) 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 8AY COLONY. IN PLACE OF THE CROSSES OF ST. GEORGE AND ST ANDREW LIBERTY TREE AN APPEAL® TO GOD LIBERTY TREE FLAG - 1776 THE PINETREE 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 PLACE THE STARS IN FORM OF CROSSES OF ST GEORGE ANO ST ANDREW FLAG OF THE THIRD MARYLAND - 1778 CARRIED AT THE BATTLE OF COWPENS JANUARY. 1778 ANO USED AS COLORS OF AMERICAN LAND FORCES UNTIL MEXICAN WAR JOHN PAUL JONES STARRY FLAG’ RESCUED FROM THE SEA BY JAMES BAYARO STAFFORD OURING BATTLE BETWEEN BON HOMME RICHARD AND SERAPIS. FLAG OF THE WAR OF 1812 (1812U14) SHOWING FIFTEEN STARS AND FIFTEEN BARS AS CHANGEO UPON ADMISSION OF VERMONT FREMONT. THE PATHFINDER’S FLAG - 40 $ EMBLEM THAT 8LAZE0 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 8Y TROOPS BUT AS FLAG OF CONQUEST AND OCCUPATION COMMODORE PERRY’S FLAG - 1854 THE FLAG THAT OPENEO JAPAN TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION. CONFEDERATE BATTLE AND NAVY FLAG USED FROM MAY 1. 1863 TO ENO OF WAR. 1865. THE BATTLE FLAG WAS SQUARE. FLAG OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR - 1898 THE EM8LEM OF LIBERTY THAT 8R0UGHT FREEDOM TO CUBA. of Freedom