Question 5 What does Jefferson imply in the following excerpt from Paragraph 2?
First: to encourage them to abandon hunting, to apply to the raising stock, to agriculture and
domestic manufacture, and thereby prove to themselves that less land and labor will maintain
them in this, better than in their former mode of living. The extensive forests necessary in the
hunting life, will then become useless, and they will see advantage in exchanging them for
the means of improving their farms, and of increasing their domestic comforts.
A
A reduction in hunting by the Indians will increase harmony between the two
peoples
B
Hunting and agriculture provide similar standards of living.
Practicing agriculture will naturally make the Indians lose interest in hunting.
D
Extensive forests are unnecessary in the hunting life. No