The Little Book On Line A Study Guide for the Ohio Ninth-Grade Citizenship Proficiency Test

V. The Symbol - The Song - The Pledge - The Preamble

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THE AMERICAN FLAG

Has thirteen red and white stripes for the thirteen original colonies and one white star for each of the fifty states on a field of blue.

 

THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

When he saw the American flag still flying over Fort McHenry, Francis Scott Key, prisoner on a British ship during the War of 1812 wrote what became our national anthem.

Oh! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
Oh! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

 
THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisble, with liberty and justice for all.

 
PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish the Constitution for the United States of America.

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Links to Additional Information

• American Flag Links
• Our Flag (The American Legion)
• Fort McHenry Home Page (National Park Service)
• Star Spangled Banner Links
• The Pledge of Allegiance: A Short History

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