Mt. Rushmore

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

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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.
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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

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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.

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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.

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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.
  

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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.