New stars are added to the American flag whenever a new state officially joins the Union. The flag has had 50 stars since Hawaii joined in 1960.
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A nation has a flag for identification. They have been historically used to determine who your allies are on a battlefield, and also used as a symbol of national pride. Flags were also used mainly on the high seas to identify a certain nations ship.
They both wanted the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution.:D
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When ever we annexed a new state.
On the US flag it is when a new state is added.
New stars were added to the American flag on July 4th of the year following their admission to the Union.
The current flag of the United States of America has 50 stars representing 50 states. When Hawaii was admitted to the U.S.A. a 50th star was added to our 49 star flag on July 4th, 1960. New stars are added to the flag on July 4th following the date when the new state was admitted to the U.S.A. July 4th is the date of our formal Declaration of independence from Great Britain in 1776.
The stars on a flag often represent various symbols such as states, territories, or commonwealths in a country. In the case of the United States flag, the stars represent the states in the union. Each star symbolizes a state and the flag's design allows for stars to be added as new states join the country.
The flag of the United States originally had 13 stars, one for each of the original 13 colonies. Since then, a new star has been added each time a state has been added.
The flag of New Zealand has four stars, representing the southern cross.
The stars on the US flag represent the 50 states in the US. Ever since the US began, it added a white star on its flag to represent the new state.
The flag of the United States of America started out with 13 stars representing the first 13 states of the nation. As new states were admitted to the USA we added a new star to our flag for each. Sometimes several states were admitted in the same year so we added multiple stars to our flag at one time. In total there were 27 official flags of the USA from 13 stars to the current 50 star flag.
In 1896 our new flag had 45 stars with the admission of Utah. When Oklahoma joined the USA in 1907 we added another star for a total of 46 stars in 1908. So, in 1900 there were 45 stars on the flag of the United States of America.
When a new state joins the country. Each state has one star.
There are four stars on the flag of New Zealand.