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Title: Mt. Rushmore


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  • Mt. Rushmore
  • by
  • Andrew, Brent, Emily and Spencer

2
Mount Rushmore
  • Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a huge
    carving that shows the faces of 4 presidents.
  • Gutzon Borglum designed Mount Rushmore.
  • Mount Rushmore was built in South Dakota.
  • The heads on Mount Rushmore are of presidents
    Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore
    Roosevelt, and George Washington.


3
Mt. Rushmore
  • The heads on Mt. Rushmore are 60 feet high.
  • They started working on Mount Rushmore in 1927.

  • It took 14 years to finish Mount Rushmore

4
Abraham Lincoln
  • Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president.
  • He was one of our greatest presidents ever.
  • He was president during the Civil War.
  • Lincoln wanted to end slavery.
  • President Lincoln was shot while he was at the
    theater 5 days after the war ended.
  • Abraham Lincoln lived in a log cabin.

5
Theodore Roosevelt
  • Roosevelt was the 29th president.
  • He was the youngest president.
  • He was 42 years old.
  • President Roosevelt worked to make the United
    States a world leader.
  • Roosevelt also wanted to make life better for the
    American people.

6
Thomas Jefferson
  • Thomas Jefferson is the second President on Mt.
    Rushmore.
  • Thomas Jefferson helped the U.S.A solve many
    problems.
  • He bought a huge piece of land from France. It
    was called the Louisiana purchase.
  • He is the third President.

7
George Washington
  • George Washington was born in 1732.
  • George Washington was the first President of the
    U.S.A.
  • As President, Washington helped solve many of the
    new countrys problems.
  • He was the leader of the Continental army.
  • He helped write the Constitution.
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