Benjamin Banneker Was

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."