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This document contains information about symbols and figures representing the United States. It provides details about presidents Barack Obama and the First Family. It also outlines key American symbols like the flag, national anthem, bald eagle, Uncle Sam, Statue of Liberty, and Mount Rushmore. The flag was designed by Betsy Ross and features 50 stars and 13 stripes. Uncle Sam became a nickname for the U.S. government after meat supplier Samuel Wilson provided beef barrels stamped "U.S." to the army.
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- 3. PPRREESSIIDDEENNTT Hawaii, on 4th August 1961 44th President Elected November 4, 2008 Sworn in on January 20, 2009 Reelected November 2012 Wife: Michelle Daughters: Malia and Sasha
- 5. Stars and Stripes Betsy Ross sewed the first flag 50 stars and 13 stripes
- 6. Anthem
- 7. Liberty Bell: Philadelphia “Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof.”
- 8. National bird: Bald Eagle 13 olive branches in one talon: the power to make peace 13 arrows in the other: the power to make war.
- 9. Uncle Sam September 7th 1813: the United States gets its nickname, Uncle Sam. The name is linked to Samuel Wilson, a meat packer from Troy, New York, who supplied barrels of beef to the United States Army during the War of 1812. Wilson (1766-1854) stamped the barrels with "U.S." for United States, but soldiers began referring to the grub as "Uncle Sam's." The local newspaper picked up on the story and Uncle Sam eventually gained widespread acceptance as the nickname for the U.S. federal government Recruiting tool for the U.S. Army during World War I
- 10. Statue of Liberty Gift from the people of France The date of the Declaration of Independence is inscribed on the tablet (On July 4, 1776) A broken chain sits at Libertas’s feet
- 11. Mount Rushmore Keystone, South Dakota Presidents of the USA: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln