Benjamin Banneker Was

question 97

Multiple Choice

Benjamin Banneker was:

• A) a scientist who helped survey the new national capital.
• B) congressional leader of the opposition to Hamilton in the early 1790s.
• C) the secretary of war who publicly disagreed with Washington over Indian policy.
• D) an African-American slave whose capture inspired the Fugitive Slave Law.
• E) the first black person elected to Congress when he won election in the "Revolution of 1800."

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