What do the 13 stars on the American Flag of 1777?

Answer 1

are you asking what they represent? they represented the original 13 colonies.

Answer 2

The thirteen stars on the 1777 American Flag represented the 13 original colonies of that time.

Answer 3

The 13 original colonies of the United States

Answer 4

The 50 stars on the flag characterize the 50 U.S. states and the 13 stripes characterize the unique 13 Colonies that rebelled against the British crown and grew to alter into the 1st states in the Union.

Answer 5

The original 13 colonies. The original intent was to add a star and a stripe for each new state added to the Union; however, the flag began to get rather ungainly in appearance as it gained new stripes. This was resolved in April 1818, when the number of stripes was frozen at 13, with only a new star being added for each new state.

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Answer 6

At the time, there were 13 states, and, therefore 13 stars and 13 stripes. As time went on, the idea of adding both stripes and stars became impractical, and, therefore, the stripes went back to one for each of the original 13 colonies while the stars increased to one per state.

Answer 7

They represent the original 13 colonies.

Answer 8

One star represents one of the thirteen states at that time. Since then, a star has been added to the flag for every state admitted into the Union for a current total of 50.

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Answer 9

The Thirteen Original Colonies:
Massachusettes, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Then they had to keep adding stars for each state that joined the union.

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Answer 10

The 13 colonies of New England before the states were formed.

Answer 11

The 13 original colonies, which later became states.