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American Symbols

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American flag

Great Seal of the U.S.

Bald Eagle Click on

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each symbol

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ALL THE INFORMATION

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American Flag

•Betsy Ross hand sowed the first US Flag in 1777

•The flag has 13 stripes and 50 stars

•The American flag has had many changes since Best Ross sowed the first flag

•The original flag only had 13 stars for the 13 colonies, we added more stars when we received more states

American Flag

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Strips mean on the American

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The Great Seal of the United States

•On July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were given the task of creating a seal

•The Great Seal was finished six years later on June 20, 1782.

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Great seal of the united states

•In the center of the Seal is the Bald Eagle our nations bird

•eagle holds a scroll in its beak

• The eagle holds an olive branch in its left claw

• A bundle of thirteen arrows in its right claw.

•The olive branch and arrows are symbols for the power of peace and war.

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Seal

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Bald Eagle

•The bald eagle was chosen June 20, 1782 as the emblem of the United States of American

• Chosen because of its long life, great strength and majestic looks.

• Also because it was then believed to exist only on this continent.

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Bald eagle

•On the backs of our gold coins, the silver dollar, the half dollar and the quarter, we see an eagle with outspread wings.

•  It is also on Great Seal of the United States and in many places which are interpreters of our nation's authority we see the same emblem.

•  The eagle represents freedom. Click here to go back to the MENU!

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What does the Bald eagle represent?

Freedom

Flight

Hard Work

What does The great seal have a picture of in the center?

BALD EAGLE

AMERICAN FLAG

PICTURE OF GEORGE

WASHINGTON

What Do the Stripes stand of on the american Flag?

The large amount of land in the United

States

The Original 13 Colonies

Nothing, it just looked nice with the stars

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Citations

• http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle9.html

• http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/National_Symbols/USA_Seal.html

• http://www.fun-facts.org.uk/america/american-flag.htm

• http://www.usconsulate.org.hk/pas/kids/sym_flag.htm

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