Mount Rushmore's Four Faces
TRIVIA QUESTION:
What four presidents are featured on Mount Rushmore?
Borglum believed that Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt & Lincoln best communicated the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States, which in his eyes represented the first 130 years of American history.
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George Washington, the first President of the United States and father of the new country represents the foundation of American democracy.
Thomas Jefferson represents growth. The third President of the United States was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence and expanded the nation with the Louisiana Purchase.
Theodore Roosevelt is said to represent the industrial development of the United States and was our 26th president.
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States was selected for his preservation of the nation during the U.S. Civil War.
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