South Dakota South Dakota became a state on November 2,

1889.

It was the 40th state to enter the Union.

By: Kush Patel

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State Flower: American Pasque flower

State Bird:Ring-necked Pheasant State Motto:

“Under God the people rule”

State Nickname:Mount Rushmore State

State Flag:

NATURAL RESOURCES

PRODUCTSNatural

Resources

Black Hills Gold

Water

Grassland

SoilRivers

Products

Jewelry

Cattle

Wheat

MAJOR

ATTRACTIONS Mount

Rushmore

National

Memorial

has presidents

faces carved on

it.

Spearfish

Canyon is a

canyon full

of waterfalls

and natural

beauty.

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SPARKY ANDERSON: Baseball Manager

TOM BROKAW: Newsman JOHN JAMES EXON: Senator

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Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began

drilling into the 6,200 foot Mount

Rushmore in 1927.The faces of George Washington,

Thomas Jefferson, Theodore

Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are

sculpted into Mount Rushmore, the

world’s greatest mountain carving.

South Dakota has the worlds largest

petrified wood park with fossilized

remains of life 50 million years old.

The Lakota and Dakota tribes make

up the Sioux nation in South Dakota.

Bowdle is known for the tallest water

tower in South Dakota.

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www.50states.com www.enchantedlearning.co

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Ainsley, Dr. W. Frank, et al,

1995,Comparing Regions,

New Jersey, Silver Burdett

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