Creator of our flag

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I say there are are5 pointed stars!

And what I say goes!

How She Started

• Betsy went to a Quaker school and received a formal education.

• She became an apprentice for a popular upholster and fell in love with her fellow upholster John Ross and they got married agents her parents will.

• The started there own upholstery business together.

• He died and after she married various times.

The flag

• Betsy was visited by George washing ton and he asked her to make the flag

• Her Daughter designed it but she sewed it .

.There were 13 stars when she made the flag for the 13 colonies

.g.w. wanted 6 points for each star but she put 5

Musket Ball Room

• Betsy didn’t only make the flag but she also invented nifty pockets for soldiers to put extra gun powder and bullets

• She called it “musket ball room”• They soon became very helpful and popular and became a regular part of

the

Army uniforms

Betsy's sad life

• Betsy married a non Quaker man even though she was raised Quaker so her family disowned her.

• Shortly after they got married he died.

• She had many brothers and sisters but not all of them lived because one died.

• Her mom , dad and sister all died with in days of each other with yellow fever.

• She had to adopt her sisters kid after she died even though her sister disowned her.

• She married many times.

• Most of her children died…

wrapping it up!

• Over all Betsy was an important member of the American community,she helped the army, made our flag, and most importantly she set a new standard for women at a time when most women didn’t work.

• Thought her life she beat the odds and became a great seamstress an a talented upholster.

• Now days you can visit her grave and her house in Philadelphia!

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Refrences

• Mara, Wil. Betsy Ross. Canada: Scholastic Inc, 2005.

• Roop, Connie, and Peter Roop. Betsy Ross.New York: Scholastic Inc, 2001.

• Tradeushuk, Patrick. "Betsy Ross House". 02/06/2007 <http://www.fieldtrip.com/pa/56275343.htm>.

• Weil, Ann. Betsy Ross Designer of Our Flag. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1986.

By stephanie shafir!!!