because they found more states
New stars were added to the American flag on July 4th of the year following their admission to the Union.
No because they only have fifty stars and if you add Washington D.C. it would make it fifty one! More to the point, stars are only for states, and Washington, DC is not a state.
The final two stars were added to the flag to represent Alaska and Hawaii.
because a bunch of other states started adding themselves to the US.
Each star on the flag represents a state of the United States. The first stars were 13 states and the US flag had 13 stars; now the US has 50 states and 50 stars. The stars & stripes style of the US flag has its artistic merits too. The sophisticated blend of red, white and blue make it an attractive flag and the flag can grow more stars if the US should add another state.
There were 15 stars on the flag throughout the War of 1812. There were 18 states by the end of 1812, but the flag did not officially add stars until the 20th state was added in 1818.
As the flag of the U.S.A , first only had thirteen stripes and thirteen stars that stood for the first thirteen states. But as there w as no place to add more stripes. It was then decided to add a star for each new state, so now there are fifty stars for the fifty states
The 13 stripes on the American flag represent the original 13 colonies of America:DelawarePennsylvaniaNew JerseyGeorgiaConnecticutMassachusettsMarylandSouth CarolinaNew HampshireVirginiaNew YorkNorth CarolinaRhode IslandThe flag held 15 stars and 15 stripes to also represent Vermont and Kentucky, but when they saw that they would have continually add stripes, they decided to just add stars and they lowered the amount of stripes back to 13. The 15 stars and stripes flag was used from May 1, 1795-July 3, 1818 and is the only American flag that features more than 13 stripes.
In 1959. Actually, while Hawaii was added as a state in August 1959, the first time a flag with the now-50 stars on it was on 4 July 1960, the next Independence day after Hawaii was admitted.
Drawing a European Union flag is simple. All you have to do is draw a rectangle, then color it blue and add stars.
because there are 50 states, and each state stands for a star
shut up you stupid yank