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History Alive! America's Past Essays - 5 views

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  • September
  • The year 1892
  • 400th
  • ...42 more annotations...
  • In 1892,
  • Francis Bellamy
  • The Pledge of Allegiance.
  • called The
  • anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery
  • Youth’s Companion
  • On October 12, 1892,
  • 12 million
  • to the Flag of the United States of America, to the flag of the United States of
  • added by Congress in 1954
  • The Words of the Pledge
  • What the Words Mean
  • I pledge allegiance I promise to be loyal
  • "Under God"
  • America
  • and to the Republic
  • and I promise to be loyal to the
  • country and type of government
  • for which it stands,
  • that the flag stands for-
  • one Nation
  • a single country,
  • under God,
  • a country that obeys and honors a
  • Supreme Being,
  • a country that can never be divided,
  • indivisible,
  • with liberty and justice for all.
  • and a country where there is freedom
  • and fairness for everyone.
  • "republic" means a certain form of government.
  • Bellamy believed that being loyal to America meant
  • being loyal to this idea.
  • "one nation"
  • "indivisible"
  • the United States had fought a terrible civil war.
  • We can never let such a thing happen again. We are
  • one country, forever."
  • women and African Americans.
  • "with liberty and justice for all.
  • He wanted
  • Americans to help their country live up to its promises.
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