Years before they touched the place now known as Mount Rushmore there were many questions that needed to be answered. ... Borglum chose the first president, George Washington, to be on the mountain because he fought for our independence from England. Thomas Jefferson was chosen after him because he wrote the Declaration of Independence and he was also president during the Louisiana Purchase, which expanded the nation greatly. ... He helped win independence from Great Britain. ...

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The American spirit of "Manifest Destiny" which had remained unbroken since the founding of the Republic reached one of its peaks at the end of the nineteenth century. The years following the Civil War had seen a steady preparation for this. In 1867, for example, William H. Seward, Secretary of Stat...

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The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generation Roosevelt. As a child and thro...

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The Warrior On October 27, 1858, in New York, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt gave birth to Theodore Roosevelt, her second child and first son. He was named after his father, Theodore Sr., and was sometimes called Thee or Teedie by his mother. He was a seventh generati...

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• Grade Level: High School