Multiple choice general knowledge culture

What president didn't like the idea of having a national Thanksgiving Day?

  1. Lincoln

  2. Truman

  3. Jefferson

  4. Roosevelt

  5. Kennedy
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Explanation

Thomas Jefferson opposed declaring a national Thanksgiving Day, viewing it as an infringement on states' rights and a violation of the First Amendment's separation of church and state. He believed religious observances should be voluntary, not mandated by federal government, unlike Washington and Adams who issued Thanksgiving proclamations.

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