2025 civics test · Question 87 of 128 · Colonial Period and Independence

Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things. Name one.

Official answers

• 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 and became the third president. As president he bought the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, which doubled the size of the country. He also founded the University of Virginia. Any one answer on the list is correct.