A mayor of this city agreed to take a polygraph test to prove he had not offered patronage jobs to Peter Camiel, though the test didn't go very well.
This city's society of journeyman cordwainers were prosecuted in the first American court case concerning a labor strike. The first Working Men's Party was founded here in 1828. A mayor of this city agreed to take a polygraph test to prove he had not offered patronage jobs to Peter Camiel, though the test didn't go very well. Herman Schwarzmann designed the grounds of a World's Fair held here in 1876, the Centennial Exposition. In this city, Absalom Jones and Richard Allen founded the Free African Society, many of whose members later joined the African Methodist Church and were key in helping this city through a yellow fever epidemic here in 1793. This city was the first temporary capital, and the site of the Second Continental Congress. For 10 points, name this city home to Independence Hall and site of the Constitutional Convention.
This city's society of journeyman cordwainers were prosecuted in the first American court case concerning a labor strike.
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