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Official question #87US Citizenship Test
Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things. Name one.
Correct answer
Writer of the Declaration of Independence
Also accepted: Writer of the Declaration of Independence · Third president of the United States · Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase) · First Secretary of State · Founded the University of Virginia · Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom
Why
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, was the first Secretary of State and the third President, doubled the size of the country with the Louisiana Purchase (1803), and founded the University of Virginia.
Answer choices
- AWriter of the Declaration of Independence
- BFirst president of the United States
- CLed the Union during the Civil War
- DWrote the Star-Spangled Banner