Vermont was admitted into the Union in 1 791, andKentucky in 1 792. Both these States wanted represen-tation on the flag, so it was decided to add a star and astripe for each one of these new States. On January 1 3, 1 794, Congress passed the secondFlag Act. Be it enacted etc., That from and after… … This was our flag during the War of 1812 and re-mained our flag until 1818. It was to this flag that FrancisScott Key on the morning of September 14, 1814, wrotethe words of the Star Spangled Banner. Between 1795 and 1818, five more States were ad-mitted into the Union, Tennessee 1796, Ohio…
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