Transcript The Star Spangled Banner - U. S. Citizenship Teachers

The Star Spangled
Banner
by D. Fisher
Frances Scott Key
(1779-1843)
Lawyer
Key’s House
Wife Mary
11 Children
42 feet long
30 feet wide
Mary Young Pickersgill made a big flag for Fort McHenry.
British Burned Washington, D.C.
President Madison had to flee.
Fort McHenry
American
Soldier
Key was on a British Ship
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Looked for his friend, Dr. Beanes.
Dr. Beanes helped wounded soldiers.
Key & Beanes could not go home.
Watched the battle all night.
Key &
Beames
Watching
The flag was
still there.
Key wrote a poem.
1931
Presedent Hover
signs the law making the
“Star Spangled Banner”
the National Anthem
The original flag hangs in the Smithsonian Institute
The Star Spangled Banner
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last
gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the
perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly
streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in
air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still
there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the
brave?