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minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoBut 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…
minus-squareEarMaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoI’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?
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoNo, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.
minus-squareodium@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoLincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.
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…
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?
No, Lincoln wasn’t a founding father. He was just a famous president who came later.
Lincoln is famous because he was the president during the US civil war and abolished slavery. This happened a century after us independence/founding.