It was not until 1942 that Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. One year later, in June 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that school children could not be forced to recite it.
The descendants of the Canaanites/Phoenicians are the modern day inhabitants of Lebanon (specifically the Christians). The Arabs and the Phoenicians aren't at all the same people. They just spoke two languages related to each other.
The Amorites were members of this ancient Semitic-speaking people. The invasion of these nomadic people, called Amurru by the Akkadians and Martu by the Assyrians, was described as coming from the northwest. They were prominent in Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine in the early centuries of the second millennium BC.