The original plan for the flag was to add a star and stripe every time a state joined the union. In 18 18, congresses like, ourt let's go back to the original 13 stripes, and then we can just put one star for each state. So that's what they did. And really not much else changed with the flag until 18 61. When an army captured fort sumter and raised a confederate flag, starting the civil war. Almost overnight, you saw flags in front of people's houses, schools, churches. Women wore little flags in their hats, lapel pins. They put em on wagons. This is the time in american history where what