H.3.AAH.3

Evaluate social, economic, and political roles of African American men and women during the expansion of the early United States. This may include:<ul><li>Benjamin Banneker, District of Columbia surveyor, planner, astronomer, and naturalist</li><li>James Derham, first to practice medicine formerly</li><li>Jupiter Hamon, considered the founder of African-American literature</li><li>Absalom Jones, early abolitionist and first ordained priest in Episcopal Church</li><li>Alexander Twilight, first to earn bachelor's degree and first state-elected official in Vermont</li></ul>