1. Mount Rushmore National Monument, USA: An inspirational wonder of the world Kristi Reyes Level 6 ESL MiraCosta College Spring 2012

2. Location - Mount Rushmore National Monument

3. Mount Rushmore Faces in Stone George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.

4. An Idea for a National Monument attract more visitors to the Black Hills area in the 1920s Gutzon Borglum chosen as the sculptor monument with faces of the four famous presidents started with drawings and sketches, and then made small models of the monument “A monument’s dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated……” - Gutzon Borglum

5. Construction of the Monument 400 men and women 1927 Dynamite used to sculpt 90% of the monument

6. Construction, continued completed in 1941 by Borglum’s son because Borglum died

7. Why these presidents? 1.George Washington - Father of our country, American independence, first president 2.Thomas Jefferson - Wrote Declaration of Independence, third president 3.Theodore Roosevelt - Conservationist, national parks, Panama Canal 4.Abraham Lincoln - Civil War, kept country united, 13 th Amendment ended slavery

8. Why is Mount Rushmore a Wonder?

9. The End Any questions?