Why was betsy ross important to the american revolution?

Question:Elizabeth Griscom (betsy) Ross was from a Quaker family, the daughter of Samuel Griscom and Rebecca James. Betsy was educated at a Quaker public school. After graduation she was apprenticed to a local upholstterer. In 1773 she eloped with another upholsterer, John Ross. In 17715, Bets and John Ross started their own upholstery business. However, the war intervened and the next year John was killed guarding an ammunition dump. Altjhough married twice more, Betsy Ross continued the upholstery business herself, working until 1827. There is controversy as to whether or not Betsy Ross actually sewed the first United States flag. However, according to the testimony of her duaghter, grandchildren, and others, it was well known that she had. No one questions that Betsy was friends with Washington. her duaghter testifies that Betsy and the Washingtons attended the same church in Philadelphia, and that Washington hired her to embroider the ruffles for his shirts. It was because of this friendship that Betsy Ross was chosen to create the first flag.'

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Elizabeth Griscom (betsy) Ross was from a Quaker family, the daughter of Samuel Griscom and Rebecca James. Betsy was educated at a Quaker public school. After graduation she was apprenticed to a local upholstterer. In 1773 she eloped with another upholsterer, John Ross. In 17715, Bets and John Ross started their own upholstery business. However, the war intervened and the next year John was killed guarding an ammunition dump. Altjhough married twice more, Betsy Ross continued the upholstery business herself, working until 1827. There is controversy as to whether or not Betsy Ross actually sewed the first United States flag. However, according to the testimony of her duaghter, grandchildren, and others, it was well known that she had. No one questions that Betsy was friends with Washington. her duaghter testifies that Betsy and the Washingtons attended the same church in Philadelphia, and that Washington hired her to embroider the ruffles for his shirts. It was because of this friendship that Betsy Ross was chosen to create the first flag.'

because she made the flag....

Betsy Ross is credited with sewing the first American flag but there is no solid evidence of that actually happening. The story came from her grandson.

I don't think she was. She just got good press. No doubt there were many other women who contributed as much or more than Betsy.

It's known that she sew and lost a husband in the war.

The legend of her sewing the "First Stars and Stripes" at the request of George Washington first appeared almost a century after the supposed event. William Canby, Ross's grandson first made the claim in 1870. When Betsy Ross died in 1836, Canby was just 11 years old. The only written proof offered were three recent statements from people that reported she told the story to them. Imagine repeating stories your grandmother told you 34 years ago.

In 1873 Harper's Weekly published the tale and by the 1880s it was in the textbooks.

While was claimed to have sewn the flag in 1776, Congress did not pass the resolution creating at flag until June 14, 1777. It read: "Resolved. That the flag of the united states be 13 stripes alternate red and white, that the Union be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation." Francis Hopkinson generally gets some credit for the stars and stripes design.

History shows George Washington was in the area during June 1776, when Ross is claimed to have been sewing. However, there's no record of the two meeting. Ross made the claim on her deathbed and Washington never mentioned it.

Should you want to be politically correct you can give the rote answer "She sewed the first American flag." Truth is it's unlikely the flag story about her is more then a myth

Born Elizabeth ("Betsy") Griscom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 1, 1752, she was the 8th of 17 children. She learned to sew from her great-aunt Sarah Griscom.

After she finished her schooling at a Quaker public school, her father apprenticed her to an upholsterer named William Webster.

At this job, she fell in love with fellow apprentice John Ross, son of an assistant rector at Christ Church.

The couple eloped in 1773 when she was 21, marrying at Hugg's Tavern in New Jersey. The wedding caused a split from her family because of the religious differences.

The couple started their own upholstery business and joined Christ Church.

John joined the Pennsylvania militia and was killed by the explosion of an ammunition cache.

Legend recounts the widowed Ross meeting with George Washington, George Ross, and Robert Morris at her upholstery business in Philadelphia.

The meeting was said to have resulted in the sewing of the first U.S. "stars and stripes" flag.

She paid her taxes, was not illegal, did not support the war, and was against illegal immigration