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Quiz · 10 questions

The Revolution & Early Republic

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1. On 19 August 1791 Benjamin Banneker sent his almanac calculations, with an argument against slavery, to which statesman?
2. In February 1791 Benjamin Banneker joined Andrew Ellicott’s survey of what?
3. In Brom and Bett v. Ashley (1781), Elizabeth Freeman argued that her enslavement was incompatible with which document?
4. With whom did Richard Allen found the Free African Society in 1787?
5. As a teenager in July 1781, James Forten joined which Revolutionary privateer as a powder boy?
6. What business made James Forten one of the wealthiest men in his city?
7. In which city was Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral published in 1773?
8. Who answered a poem by Phillis Wheatley in 1776 and invited her to his headquarters at Cambridge?
9. Prince Hall’s lodge, warranted by the Grand Lodge of England in 1784, became the root of Prince Hall Freemasonry. What was it called?
10. In April 1816 Richard Allen was consecrated the first bishop of which denomination?

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