Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

On the 2025 test

The 2025 test asks this as Question 78, in the same words.

The 2025 list has the same answer.

Related 2025 question on the same fact:

• 2025 Question 87: Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things. Name one.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

Explanation

Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.

Why it matters

Jefferson's words about equality and rights have echoed through American history.

The 65/20 special consideration

Question 62 is not in the 65/20 set. An applicant who is 65 or older and has been a lawful permanent resident for 20 years or more studies only the 20 marked questions, so this one would not be asked. Everyone else studies all 100.

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Answers that get mixed up with this one

These are the wrong options the practice test puts beside this question. Each one is the correct answer to a different question, which is what makes it tempting.

• freedom of expressionanswers Question 51: What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?
• the Louisiana Territoryanswers Question 71: What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803?
• World War Ianswers Question 78: Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.

More Colonial Period and Independence questions

Questions the officer draws from the same part of the test. Studying them together is what keeps their answers apart.

• Question 58: What is one reason colonists came to America?freedom · political liberty · religious freedom · economic opportunity · practice their religion · escape persecution
• Question 59: Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?American Indians · Native Americans
• Question 60: What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?Africans · people from Africa
• Question 61: Why did the colonists fight the British?because of high taxes (taxation without representation) · because the British army stayed in their houses (boarding, quartering) · because they didn't have self-government
• Question 63: When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?July 4, 1776