By: Jayden Walker Picture via wikipedia.com Mount Rushmore is carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The construction of the monument began on October 4, 1927 and was fully completed on October 31, 1941. The creators were a father and son duo named Guzton and Lincoln Borglum. There are four presidents on the mountain: The first President George Washington, the third President Thomas Jefferson, the 26th President Theodore Roosevelt, and the 16th President Abraham Lincoln. The monument is about 700-meters long and 300-meters wide. Each face is about 60-feet tall and the noses about 20-feet. Their mouths are about 18-feet wide. But why are these four presidents on this iconic mountain? In this article, I will be talking about each president and what they did for the country. Pictures via Wikipedia.com
George Washington George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He was born to Augustine and Mary Washington. He became America’s first president. He was inaugurated on April 30, 1789. Washington served two terms as president and introduced five new states and ratified the Bill of Rights, He signed the first United States copyright law, protecting the copyrights of authors, and he made November 26 a national day of thanksgiving for the end of the war for American independence and the successful ratification of the Constitution. In 1796, Washington would decline going for a third term and retired. Three years later, Washington caught a cold and eventually died on December 14, 1799. His plantation would eventually become a national historic landmark. Washington is now known as “Father of the Country.” Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in what is now Charlottesville, Virginia. He was born to Peter and Jane Jefferson. Jefferson was the third president of the United States. He was inaugurated on March 4, 1801 and was the first president to be inaugurated in Washington, D.C. Jefferson also made the famous Louisiana Purchase from France and sent Lewis and Clark to explore the land. He lowered the national debt from $80 million to $57 million in his first two years in office. He deployed new ships to stop pirates from attaching American merchants. Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, which was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was born on October 27, 1858 to Martha and Theodore Roosevelt Sr. He was the 26th president of the United States and was inaugurated September 14, 1901. He made foreign policy a way to maintain peace and order. Roosevelt also intervened in the Russo-Japanese War when he brought both nations together and mediated an end to the war. He helped Panama gain its independence from Colombia. He made a waterway called the Panama Canal, which helps ships sail faster from Panama to America and vice versa. He died on January 6, 1919. Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809 to Thomas and Nancy Lincoln. He became the 16th president of the United States and was inaugurated on March 4, 1861. One month later, on April 15, 1861, Lincoln declared a civil war with the southern union in order to unite the country and to free the slaves. In 1863, Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which was made to free all the slaves. Lincoln won the war two years later on April 9th, 1865. Six days later, Lincoln was assassinated while watching a theater play. He died on April 16th, 1865.
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