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A bell was brought to Philadelphia in 1752 to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Pennsylvania colony. It weighed two thousand pounds and at the largest part was twelve feet wide.
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The 13 colonies want a flag that united them so a flag was made with 13 stripes and 13 stars.
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The bell was named the Liberty Bell because on that day the Declaration of Independence was approved.
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Congress selected the bald eagle to be the official emblem of the US
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Liberty Bell cracked when it was rang on George Washington’s birthday
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The Statue of Liberty was placed in the New York Harbor
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Francis Bellamy published his poem in a children’s magazine The Youth’s Companion
