Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: -=* Origin of the United States National Motto *=- 0m In God We Trust, designated as the United States National Motto by Congress in 1956, originated during the Civil War as an inscription for U.S. Coins, although it was used by Francis Scott Key in a slightly different form when he wrote The Star Spangled Banner in 1814. On November 13, 1861, when Union morale had been shaken by battlefield defeats, the Rev. M. R. Watkinson, of Ridleyville, Pa. wrote to Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, "From my heart I have felt our national shame in disowning God, as not the least of our present national disasters." the minister wrote, suggesting "recognition of the Almighty God, in some form, on our coins." Secretary Chase ordered designs prepared with the inscription ' In God We Trust' and ba ...
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