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She didn't make the flag. This is a story her grandson made up in 1870. Congress gives credit to Francis Hopkinson who designed the flag. The first flag was made for the navy in 1776 and it was a basic British flag with stripes. The second flag had stars where the British flag had a cross.
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How many kids did Betsy Ross have?
Betsy Ross had seven kids, five of whom lived to adulthood. None of these children were fathered by John Ross.
How many kids did Betsy Ross's third husband give her?
When Betsy Ross married her third husband they had five children, all girls.
What does legend say Betsy Ross showed George Washington how to make?
five pointed star
How many kids did Betsy ross and john claypoole have?
Five.
What are five important events that happened in Betsy Ross's life?
wall no one she sowed the AMERICAN FLAG .I hope that you get 4 more by love Jena
What was the date of when Betsy Ross was asked to make the first American flag?
According to the traditional account, the original flag was made on 4 July 1776. Betsy accepted the job to manufacture the flag after she was visited by a small committee that included George Washington and George Ross. The committee discussed the need for a new American flag, with the original design intended to have six-pointed stars. However Betsy Ross altered the design to five-pointed stars.
How many grandchildren did Betsy Ross have?
She had seven Daughters one of them died and another was immature. Two of the daughters are Joseph Ashburn's and the other five are John Claypoole's. most of her children died.
How many Betsy Ross kids die?
Betsy had seven children. Two with her first husband, and five with her third husband. The sources that I can find don't describe why any of her children died, but we know that at least one lived to adulthood, because Betsy lived with one of her daughters at the time of her death, and we know she had at least one grandson because he is the one who started the story about Betsy Ross being the originator of the American Flag.
What type of stars were easy for Betsy Ross to make?
Betsy Ross found it easy to make five-pointed stars, as they could be cut from a single piece of fabric with one snip and then folded to create the desired shape. This method was efficient and practical for her sewing tasks. The simplicity of the design helped in the quick production of the early American flags.
Who was Betsy Ross' first daughter?
she had kids namedZilla, Eliza, Clarissa, Susan, , Rachel, Jane, and Harriet. Zilla and Harriet died at young ages Harriet died at 8 months.What_is_betsy_ross_daughters_names
Who are 3 people that influenced Betsy Ross' life?
one of the presidents and maybe some of her family members. NOT much belined in her that she could design the first five pionted star
When did Betsy ross finish the American flag?
This question has no easy answer. To best answer this question we need to first understand the origin of the Betsy Ross' legend. The Betsy Ross' legend says that in June 1776, General George Washington and a secret committee from the Continental Congress, later identified as George Ross and Robert Morris, assembled to create the first American flag. They went to Ross's upholstery shop, and Washington gave her his sketch. Ross was approached for her skill, as well as her relationship to George Ross, Betsy Ross's uncle who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Ross did not agree with the proposed design of the flag, and she became the mother of our nation's "stars and stripes" by changing Washington's proposed six-pointed star, to a five-pointed star to show American independence. Betsy Ross believed that America should use new imagery, and with one single snip of scissors, she revealed a perfect five-pointed star. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the flag of the United States of America. This is the legend, as told by William Canby, grandson of Betsy Ross, at a meeting of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1870. Betsy Ross' told her tale to her grandson, William Canby, when she was eighty years old. William Canby then relayed the tale, as stated above, for the first time in 1870 at a meeting of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. This being the case, the question as to whether or not Betsy Ross really sewed the first American flag is still being investigated. So, we would need have a clear answer to this question before we can start asking when did Besy Ross sew the American flag (if in fact she did). So what do history tells us about this tale? Elizabeth "Betsy" Ross helped out her husband in their tailoring and upholstery business until his death in a munitions explosion in 1776. Following John Ross' unfortunate and untimely demise, Betsy stepped up to take on full responsibility for the tailoring business which was why-at least according to American myth-no less than George Washington himself showed up at the tailor store one day in June of 1776. The legend goes that George Washington met with Betsy Ross specifically to discuss a design for the official flag of the country that revolution was to build. Again, according to legend, George Washington wanted a flag made of red and white stripes and thirteen six-pointed stars in a circle to represent the colonies. Betsy, however, talked him out of this by saying that five-pointed stars were much easier to cut. American mythology goes onto say that almost as soon as George Washington's boots hit the front steps, Betsy Ross set about to making that first American flag. So, is it true, or not? Did Betsy Ross really sew the first American flag? Well, there are some problems. In the first place, this mythic meeting of giants of American history made it into history books courtesy of the story told by...Betsy Ross. George Washington, on the other hand, never recounted any part of this story. And there's a further problem: Betsy Ross never related the full details of this story until she was dying, and then it was to her grandson William Canby, who was a mere lad of eleven at the time. Further complicating matters and lending some credence to the fact that the Ross bloodline has some procrastinators in it is that William Canby then did not publicly relate the story told him by granny Betsy for another thirty years. By the time William Canby got around to telling the story of the historical meeting between Betsy Ross and George Washington and the first American flag, almost a century had passed from when this meeting allegedly took place. There is some written history that makes it easier to divine truth from myth, if not completely mark Betsy Ross as a teller of tall tales. A copy of Washington's itinerary from June of 1776 does place him in Philadelphia around the time this meeting with Betsy Ross supposedly took place. Unfortunately, there is no entry of a meeting with any seamstress. George Washington's diary entry also neglects to mention that he had anything to do with the designing the American flag. And as if that isn't enough, consider that the Continental Congress had never met to discuss designing of a flag. At the time the official flag was known as the Grand Union Flag and it was a kind of bastardization of the Union Jack, complete with red and white stripes. Washington was known to be okay with the general design of Grand Union Flag and had never given any indication he was interested in such a full scale redesign as legend has it. So, did Betsy Ross really sew the first American flag? Probably not. But it is a nice legend none the less.
