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Earlier before the merging of the thirteen initial states to become the United States of America, every state had its own flag that contained differe...

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Earlier before the merging of the thirteen initial states to become the United States of America, every state had its own flag that contained different designs and colours in accordance with the taste of its commanders. Nevertheless the Rhode Island flag was the first flag to contain any stars. There were thirteen stars in the flag that later on came to represent the thirteen initial states that jointly constituted the United States of America.
So almost after a year of signing the Declaration of Independence, the United States of America developed its own flag, the thirteen stars in the corner representing the thirteen states and the stripes in alternate patterns of red and white representing the same. Each time a new state added to the US, a star and a stripe were added to the flag. Nevertheless by 1795 because of the constant addition of states, the flag was becoming a little cramped and that is when Congress decided to cease the addition of flags and continue the addition of stars. Therefore the flag of today has stars and stripes, the thirteen stripes representing the thirteen initial states of the US and the fifty stars representing the current 50 states that constitute America.

13 original colonies

the 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies.

Well they represent the first 13 colonies!!! i know, i like being repetitive!!