Citizen in the Nation Merit Badge

Requirement 2D

 

Choose one of these National Monuments listed below (or pick one of your own).  Click on one of the websites links listed below and know for the next session:

  1. What are some of the interesting facts that you learned about this National Monument?

  2. Why do you feel it is important to the citizens of this country?

 

A National Monument in the United States a protected area that is similar to a national park.  The exception is that the President can quickly declare an area of the United States to be a national monument without Congressional approval. National monuments receive less funding and afford fewer protections to wildlife than national parks.

Mount Rushmore - South Dakota

            http://www.nps.gov/moru/                     Click on History and Culture

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rushmore

 

Statue of Liberty - New York and New Jersey

            http://www.nps.gov/stli/                         Click on History and Culture

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty

 

Washington Monument - District of Columbia

            http://www.nps.gov/wamo

            http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/washmon.html

 

Little Bighorn Battlefield - Montana

http://www.nps.gov/libi/                        Click on History and Culture and then Places

and finally Indian Memorial at Little Bighorn

            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bighorn_Battlefield_National_Monument

 

Booker T. Washington - Virginia

            http://www.nps.gov/bowa                     Click on History and Culture

 

Fort Matanzas - Florida

            http://www.nps.gov/foma/                     Click on History and Culture

 

Fort Union - New Mexico

            http://www.nps.gov/foun/                      Click on History and Culture

 

Aniakchak - Alaska

            http://www.nps.gov/ania/                       Click on History and Culture

 

Montezuma Castle - Arizona

            http://www.nps.gov/moca/                    Click on History and Culture

 

Devils Tower - Wyoming

            http://www.nps.gov/deto/                      Click on History and Culture

 

 

Last modified: November 03, 2007