His steady leadership, integrity and judgement provided the foundation for our fledgling republic. His place on Mount Rushmore, his monument in the capital that bears his name, a state and numerous roads, counties, towns and universities are deserving tributes to this great man.
Thomas Jefferson is best known as the third President of the United States and the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. His wide-ranging interests included philosophy, politics, education, agriculture, architecture, music, art, literature and more. The amazing legacy of our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, includes winning the Civil War and bringing an end to slavery in our country.
His speeches continue to inspire people today. This significant precedent gave life to the idea that places of scenic and natural importance should be protected for the benefit and enjoyment of the people. A New Yorker by birth, Roosevelt developed a deep passion for western lands, particularly the unique badlands of South Dakota. Though his likeness is slightly set back, the details of his eyeglasses and mustache make him an interesting part of the sculpture.
Carving Mount Rushmore was a project of colossal proportion, ambition and achievement. It involved the efforts of nearly men and women. The work was exciting, but dangerous. Ninety percent of the mountain was carved using dynamite. Only the last inches of rock were removed by drillers using jackhammers.
Hand tools smoothed the stone and added small details, like wrinkles and moles. The workers had to endure conditions that varied from blazing hot to bitterly cold and windy.
Major accomplishments during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
He is known for many philosophical statements, including, 'A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, , and is well known for his energetic persona and his cowboy image. He served as the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and was a key figure in the Republican Party during his political career.
He is also known for inviting the press into the White House for daily briefings, which later became a tradition, and for adding on to the Monroe Doctrine, and passing the Pure Food and Drug Act.
Theodore Roosevelt was known to have said, 'A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. Although his presidential term was cut short when he was assassinated in , he led the country through the Civil War and was successful in ending slavery in the country. His Emancipation Proclamation in abolished slavery, and he also promoted passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
In speaking of the Civil War, Lincoln stated, 'A house divided against itself cannot stand. Request a Caravan Tours brochure. Where is Mount Rushmore? Who Built Mount Rushmore? When Was Mount Rushmore Built? George Washington President Washington was selected because of his efforts towards democracy in the United States. Thomas Jefferson President Jefferson was chosen for his authorship of the Declaration of Independence.
George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in , which federal troops eventually crushed in a brutal massacre at Wounded Knee in Ever since then, Sioux activists have protested the U. The Black Hills or Paha Sapa in Lakota are particularly important to them, as the region is central to many Sioux religious traditions. Rushmore, who traveled to the Black Hills in 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 before, but from now on would be known as Rushmore Peak later Rushmore Mountain or Mount Rushmore.
In August , after the original sculptor he contacted was unavailable, Robinson contacted Gutzon Borglum, an American sculptor of Danish descent who was then working on carving an image of the Confederate General Robert E.
Robinson had a history of disputes with those who commissioned the Lee project, and they fired Borglum, who left the sculpture unfinished.
Borglum convinced Robinson that the sculpture in South Dakota should depict George Washington and Abraham Lincoln , as that would give it national, and not just local, significance. He would later add Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt to the list, in recognition of their contributions to the birth of democracy and the growth of the United States.
During a second visit to the Black Hills in August , 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. After President Calvin Coolidge traveled to the Black Hills for his summer vacation, the sculptor convinced the president to deliver an official dedication speech at Mount Rushmore on August 10, ; carving began that October.
To carve the four presidential heads into the face of Mount Rushmore, Borglum utilized new methods involving dynamite and pneumatic hammers to blast through a large amount of rock quickly, in addition to the more traditional tools of drills and chisels.
Some workers removed around , tons of rock from Mount Rushmore, which still remains in a heap near the base of the mountain. Though it was arduous and dangerous work, no lives were lost during the completion of the carved heads.
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