Thomas Jefferson Grows a Nation

What is the genre for the story, Thomas Jefferson Grows a Nation?

• Fairy Tale

• Informational/

  Biography

• Fiction

• Poetry

What did Thomas Jefferson enjoy as much as writing?

• riding a bike

• talking to the forest animals

• coloring

• grow things

Thomas Jefferson established trade agreements to help the New Englanders sell ________.

• fur

• whale oil

• fresh fruit

• wood

TJ established an agreement to help the Southerns sell ______.

• pickles

• berries

• tobacco

• ships

Why did TJ want to help the Southerners in the U.S. to grow dry rice instead of "swamp rice"?

• Because they often suffered from malaria and mosquitos and got sick

• Because he knew a better way and was a show off

• Because he wanted to take the swamp rice for himself

• Because he preferred the taste of the dry rice

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How did TJ get the highly prized, dry rice out of Italy?

• He stuffed it in squirrel's cheeks and smuggled it

• He stuffed it in his pockets and smuggled it

• He launched it over the bay into ships

• He put it in waterproof bags and pulled it under the water on boats

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson became__________ for President George Washington.

• chef

• farmer

• secretary of state

• cartoonist

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton were...

• having very different visions for New York City

• best friends and shared an office space

• both former wrestlers who made it to the White House

• neighbors growing up and traveled together

TJ's ideas of planting olive trees for olive oil and maple trees for maple sugar were very successful.

• True

• False

Thomas Jefferson became the _____ President of the United States in 1801.

• 1st

• 5th

• 13th

• 3rd