When Andrew Jackson Had the Chance to Obtain African-American Help

question 36

Multiple Choice

When Andrew Jackson had the chance to obtain African-American help to fight the British in the Battle of New Orleans, he

• A) refused on the grounds that, as a slaveholder, he could not accept their aid.
• B) discovered that all the blacks in New Orleans had left the city to support the British.
• C) recruited free men of color and promised them the same pay that white recruits received.
• D) accepted only enslaved men, to whom he offered freedom as a form of payment.
• E) accepted, but that so angered the white recruits that he later dismissed all the black soldiers.

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