American+Symbols

Ian


==== __Mount Rushmore__ is located in Keystone, South Dakota. It is an important symbol in America because as its sculptor Borglum said, “It communicates the founding expansion, preservation and unification of the United States.” Some fun facts about Mount Rushmore: Each president’s head is as tall as a six-story building. Each president’s nose is 20 feet long. Each mouth on the president’s are 18 feet long. And each of the president’s eyes are 11 feet long. ====

Corbin


 * Bald Eagle**

They are found on the backs of some U.S. coins, the Great Seal of the United States and it lives in nature.

It is important to America, because it symbolizes long life, great strength, freedom and is very majestic. It is a symbol known around the world and commands the respect of others.

Facts: 1. It became the national bird and political symbol in 1782. 2. Its average life span is 28 years, has a body that is 34 inches to 43 inches long and has a wingspan of six feet to eight feet in width. 3. The main food in its diet is fish. 4. Bald eagles only like in North America and are most abundant in Alaska and Canada.



Sullivan I reaserched Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.. There are veterans and other excetional individuals bured at arlington from the Revolutionary war to the present military action. More than 300,000 people are buried at Arlington. It's the home of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The remains of all seven challenger astronauts were buried together here. More than 4 million people vist every year and nearly a 100 services a week.

Ashley

Natalie I researched the Lincoln Memorial. It is located in the National Mall in Washington D.C. It honors the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is administered by the National Park Service. Martin Luther King gave a speech there. It is open to the public 24 hours a day. The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple.

Kolby I reaserched __Mount Rushmore__ and it is located in South Dakota. It sybolizes four presidents that represents the first 150 years of our nations history. The four presidents were Washington, Jefferson, Rosevelt, and Lincon. It took 400 workers to carve the heads. There is a cave behind the mounument its called Hall of Records. The mounument is named after a New York City attorney Charles E. Rushmore.



Tyler __Statue of Liberty__ is located in New York, New York on Ellis Island. She was a gift to America from France over a hundred years ago on October 28, 1886. She is 305 feet, 6 inches tall. Her crown has seven spike. They represent the seven seas and continents of the world. There are 154 steps from the pedestal to the head.



Taylor The Great Seal is kept by the Secretary of State. It is used to "sign" official documents like a bill passed by congress. The front of the seal is The Bald Eagle and on the back is a 13 layered pyramid. It was first approved by congress and used on June 20th, 1782 midway between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Since 1935 both sides of the Great Seal appear on the back side of a one dollar bill.

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Blade I chose Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii as my monument because I have been there twice and it was a neat but quiet place. Pearl Harbor is the reason that the U.S. entered World War2. And because 2,403 Americans died in the attack. It was an unexpected military strike by the Japenese on the U.S.The Japenese sank 4 other battleships,and damaged 4 more. The attack was on Sunday morning Dec,7 1941 when most of the military had the day off. The U.S.S. Arizona Memorial has 1,5 million people visit a day.

Clair Mount Rushmore is a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota. On this mountain is a massive granite sculpture of four very significant American presidents- George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. It took more than 14 years for sculptor Gutzon Borglum, and 400 workers to carve the 60 foot heads of the four presidents. Not one life was lost during the project and it ended up costing just 1 million dollars. The project was started in 1927. Each sculpted head is as high as a 6-story building.

Anthony The Statue of Liberty is located on Ellis Island, NY. It was designed by Frederick Auguste Bartholdi and was given to the United States as a gift from France in 1886. The statue is green because it is made out of copper which oxidized over time. It is 300 feet tall from the ground to the tip of the flame. The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of freedom and democracy.



Olivia I researched the Statue of Liberty. It is made of copper. It is one of the largest statues ever made. It is 151 feet and 1 inch tall. It weighs 450,000 pounds. This statue was a gift from France and was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland on October 28, 1886.

Abbey I am doing The statue of liberty!The statue of liberty was built by french sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, with the help of tons of workers working ten hour days, seven days a week for nine years!The statue was finally finished in 1884 and presented to America on July 4th.It didn't arrive in the United States until many months later though, cuz all 350 individual pieces of the statue had to be packed into 214 crates for the long boat ride from France to New York.Visitors must climb 354 stairs to reach the Statue of Liberty's crown(or take an elevator to a lower lookout point).There are 25 windows in Lady Liberty's crown.The Statue of Liberty weighs 450,000 pounds.The Sataue of liberty celebrates her birthday on October 28th in honor of the day she was officially accepted by the president of the United States in 1886.

Carson I am researching the Lincoln Memorial. It was built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. The building is in the form of a Greek Doric temple and contains a large seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by Lincoln. The memorial was dedicated on Memorial Day, May 30, 1922, 57 years after Lincoln died. The Lincoln Memorial was shown on the reverse of the United States one cent coin, which bears Lincoln's portrait on the front. The memorial also appears on the back of the U.S. five dollar bill, and again his portrait on the front. The stone for the building is Indiana limestone and Yule marble. The Lincoln Memorial within is made of Murphy Marble. The statue stands 19 feet 9 inches tall and 19 feet wide, and was carved from 28 blocks of marble. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is inscribed on the south wall, and on the facing wall is Lincoln's second inaugural address. Above the texts are canvas murals that depict an angel, the freeing of a slave and the unity of the American North and South.