Questions 1-2 refer to the following except "I have not the least doubt that the Negroes will make very excel
prejudice and self-interest. The contempt we have been taught to enter
I foresee that this project will have to combat much opposition to
nor experience, and an unwillingness to part with property of so value
for the black makes us fancy many things that are founded neither in
should be considered that if we do not make use of them in this way, the
pernicious tendency of a scheme which requires such a sacrifice. But
enemy probably will. An essential part of the plan is to give them the
Aleander Hamilton, Propisal to Arm and Then Free the Negroes, 1779
(D) the views of Whites toward enslaved African Americans
2. The excerpt supports the claim that the use of Black troops during the
Revolutionary War was likely motivated by which of the following?
(A) Awareness that the French were using Black soldiers in their a
soldiers, with proper management...
a kind will furnish a thousand arguments to show the impracticabilny
1. This excerpt suggests that Hamilton saw the conflict with Great Britain
(B) whether colonists had adequate skills to manage soldiers
freedom with their muskets."
as also a conflict among colonists over
(A) whether to trust reason or experience more
(C) the views of plantation owners about the enemy
army
(B) Fear that the British would recruit African Americans
(C) Concern that state militias were short of troops
(D) Belief that the Declaration of Independence called for equality