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Who was the first known settler to build a house and open a trading post in what became Chicago?
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Whose efforts to strengthen the legal position of blacks in the United States led to a law in 1783 that gave blacks in Massachusetts the right to vote?
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Who cofounded Freedom's Journal, the first newspaper in the United States to be owned and operated by blacks?
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Who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.), the first African American denomination in the United States?
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What leader of the Underground Railroad was called Moses, after the Biblical figure who led the Jews from Egypt?
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Who led a slave revolt in 1831 that resulted in the deaths of more white people than any other slave revolt in U.S. history?
