Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

On the 2008 test

The 2008 test asks this as Question 62, in the same words.

The 2008 question lists the same answer.

Background

Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson's words about equality and rights have echoed through American history.

From this site's page for 2008 Question 62.

The 65/20 special consideration

Question 78 is one of the 20 questions USCIS marks with an asterisk. An applicant who is 65 or older and has been a lawful permanent resident for 20 years or more may study only those 20; the officer asks 10 of them and 6 correct answers pass.

Answers that get mixed up with this one

These are the wrong options the 2025 practice test puts beside this question. Each one is the correct answer to a different 2025 question.

• Citizensanswers Question 64: Who can vote in federal elections, run for federal office, and serve on a jury in the United States?
• Required by lawanswers Question 71: Why is it important to pay federal taxes?
• Freed the slavesanswers Question 95: What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

More Colonial Period and Independence questions

• Question 75: What group of people was taken and sold as slaves?Africans · People from Africa
• Question 76: What war did the Americans fight to win independence from Britain?American Revolution · The (American) Revolutionary War · War for (American) Independence
• Question 77: Name one reason why the Americans declared independence from Britain.High taxes · Taxation without representation · British soldiers stayed in Americans’ houses (boarding, quartering) · They did not have self-government · Boston Massacre · Boston Tea Party (Tea Act) · Stamp Act · Sugar Act · Townshend Acts · Intolerable (Coercive) Acts
• Question 79: When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?July 4, 1776
• Question 80: The American Revolution had many important events. Name one.(Battle of) Bunker Hill · Declaration of Independence · Washington Crossing the Delaware (Battle of Trenton) · (Battle of) Saratoga · Valley Forge (Encampment) · (Battle of) Yorktown (British surrender at Yorktown)