• @threelonmusketeers
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    33 days ago

    But they would know Thomas Jefferson? If I were tasked to choose the most famous U.S. political figures, I might have chosen Washington or Lincoln…

    • @[email protected]
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      33 days ago

      I’m not from Brazil but from Germany and out of all the U.S. founding fathers Washington, Franklin and Jefferson were the ones I had heard of. Lincoln also, but he is not one of them, is he?

      • @[email protected]
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        119 hours ago

        Lincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.

      • @threelonmusketeers
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        32 days ago

        No, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.