This is for the remembrance of the Late President Abraham Lincoln who give his entire knowledge and wisdom on how to make a balanced and equal society in America. That there should be no racial discrimination and to stop slavery among whites and the blacks. He unites the South and the North America also and now that the reason why there's this United States of America.
cuz they wanted to fit the whole body of him and @ first they where going to have it smaller sized but the body did not fit in the memorial so they had 2 make it bigger then what they where going to have the memorial in the first place and that is my awnser and besides i looked up to find the awnser and guess what this is what i got so i wrought down my answer and this is a crapy place to get info allison,11 peace out my bffls
To memorialize Abraham Lincoln for what he did for our country :)!!!!
Because Abraham Lincoln was a honored president of the USA.
Abraham Lincoln did not build the Memorial himself. It was built by Daniel Chester French (the sculptor) and Henry Bacon (the architect) from the year 1912 to ten years later in 1922.
To remember and honor Abraham Lincoln.
It became a symbol in 1994
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To honor president Lincoln
It took 3,600 people to built the Lincoln memorial
Henry Bacon.
He didn't. It's a memorial, which means it was built after he died as an honor to Lincoln and his accomplishments as president.
The Lincoln Memorial was made with Indiana Limestone, Yule Marble and Georgian Marble.
to memorialize the 16th president, Abraham lincoln
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over 570 tons
The ground breaking for the Lincoln Memorial was on February 12, 1914. The memorial sits on 6.3 ares of land, cost $2,957,000 to build, and has an estimated weight of 38,000 tons!
Henry Bacon built the Lincoln Memorial in order to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It took eight years to build the memorial which was dedicated in 1922. Several other monuments and statues have been built to honor past presidents.
The Lincoln Memorial was named for Abraham Lincoln