Question 87: Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things. Name one.

Official answers (any one counts)

USCIS accepts any of these answers. If the question asks for more than one, give as many as it asks.

• Writer of the Declaration of Independence
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• Third president of the United States
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• Doubled the size of the United States (Louisiana Purchase)
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• First Secretary of State
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• Founded the University of Virginia
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• Writer of the Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom
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Grandpa explains

He wrote the Declaration, was the third president, and bought Louisiana from France in 1803.

Careful: these are NOT the answer

These are the common mix-ups. The app uses them as traps so you practice.

• First president of the United States
• Fourth president of the United States
• First Secretary of the Treasury

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