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Terms in this set (8) 1. Hi, I'm Theodore Roosevelt. Did you know that I am on a National Monument located in South Dakota., it shows the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and me! 2. This Monument stands as tall as 5,725 feet above sea level. Each individual face is sixty feet from chin to forehead.
October 15, 1966. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore ( Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota, United States. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum designed the sculpture, called Shrine of ...
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In the Treaty of Fort Laramie, signed in 1868 by Sioux tribes and General William T. Sherman, the U.S. government promised the Sioux “undisturbed use and occupation” of territory including the Black Hills, in what is now South Dakota. But the discovery of gold in the region soon led U.S. prospectors to flock there en masse, and the U.S. government ...
Mount Rushmore, located just north of what is now Custer State Park in the Black Hills National Forest, was named for the New Yorklawyer Charles E. Rushmore, who traveled to the Black Hills in 1885 to inspect mining claims in the region. When Rushmore asked a local man the name of a nearby mountain, he reportedly replied that it never had a name be...
During a second visit to the Black Hills in August 1925, Borglum identified Mount Rushmore as the desired site of the sculpture. Local Native Americans and environmentalists voiced their opposition to the project, deeming it a desecration of Sioux heritage as well as the natural landscape. But Robinson worked tirelessly to raise funding for the scu...
On July 4, 1930, a dedication ceremony was held for the head of Washington. After workers found the stone in the original site to be too weak, they moved Jefferson’s head from the right of Washington’s to the left; the head was dedicated in August 1936, in a ceremony attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In September 1937, Lincoln’s head was...
Native Americans and Mount Rushmore, PBS. Matthew Shaer, “The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore.” Smithsonian Magazine, October 2016. Lisa Kaczke and Jonathan Ellis, “Oglala Sioux President says Mount Rushmore should be 'removed': What's behind the site's controversial history.” Sioux Falls Argus Leader, June 25, 2020
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Oct 30, 2011 · By 1929, the Mount Rushmore bill was passed, ensuring that the government would provide up to $250,000, or half of the estimated cost of the memorial, by matching private donations. Over the 14 ...
Mount Rushmore. Term. 1 / 14. U.S. Presidents faces. Click the card to flip 👆. Definition. 1 / 14. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. Click the card to flip 👆.
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Jun 11, 2024 · Mount Rushmore National Memorial, colossal sculpture in the Black Hills of southwestern South Dakota, U.S. It lies about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Rapid City, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Custer, and just north of Custer State Park. Huge representations of the heads of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and ...
