Mount Rushmore. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota Sioux name: Six Grandfathers) near Keystone, South Dakota, in the United States.
Sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, Mount Rushmore features 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of four United States presidents: George Washington (1732–1799), Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), and Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865).[2] The entire memorial covers 1,278.45 acres (5.17 km2)[3] and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level.[4] Mount Rushmore has become an iconic symbol of presidential greatness and has appeared in works of fiction, and has been discussed or depicted in other popular works.
It attracts nearly three million people annually.[8] History[edit] Mount Rushmore before construction, circa 1905. Originally known to the Lakota Sioux as Six Grandfathers, the mountain was renamed after Charles E. Dixie. The states in dark red are almost always included in modern day definitions of the Southern United States, while those in medium red are usually included.
Those cross-shaded are sometimes included due to their historic connections to the South.[1][2][3] Dixie is a nickname for the Southern United States. Origin of the name[edit] Ten Dollar Note from Banque des citoyens de la Louisiane, 1860 According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the origins of this nickname remain obscure. Dixie as a region[edit] Bayou Navigation in Dixie, engraving of a Louisiana Steamboat, 1863. However, the location and boundaries of Dixie have become, over time, more limited, vernacular and mercurial. Songs[edit] "I Wish I Was in Dixie"[edit] "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" sheet music Sheet music version "I Wish I Was in Dixie" is a popular song about the South. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
The Band also released a live album named for and featuring the song.
Meaning[edit] The song was written by Robbie Robertson. The lyrics tell of the last days of the American Civil War and the suffering of the South.[1] Dixie is a nickname for the Southern Confederate states. Confederate soldier Virgil Caine "served on the Danville train" (the Richmond and Danville Railroad, a main supply line into the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia from Danville, Virginia, and by connection, the rest of the South). Union cavalry regularly tore up Confederate rail lines to prevent the movement of men and material to the front where Robert E. The song's lyric refers to conditions in the Southern states in the winter of early 1865 ("We were hungry / Just barely alive"); the Confederate states are starving and defeated.
Robertson claimed that he had the music to the song in his head but had no idea what it was to be about: "At some point [the concept] blurted out to me. Reception[edit] Ralph J. History of the United States. When to date the start of the history of the United States is debated among historians.
Older textbooks start with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and emphasize the European background, or they start in 1600 and emphasize the American frontier. In recent decades American schools and universities typically have shifted back in time to include more on the colonial period and much more on the prehistory of the Native peoples.[1][2] Indigenous peoples lived in what is now the United States for thousands of years and developed complex cultures before European colonists began to arrive, mostly from England, after 1600. The Spanish had small settlements in Florida and the Southwest, and the French along the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast. By the 1770s, thirteen British colonies contained two and a half million people along the Atlantic coast east of the Appalachian Mountains.
Pre-Columbian era[edit]