SS8H4b GA Land Policies

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Which methods did Georgia use to distribute land in the late 1700s and early 1800s? Options: collective bargaining and issuing bonds, speculation and sharecropping, the headright system and the land lottery, the land−use plan and the embargo system

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the headright system and the land lottery

Front

Identify the most correct description of the Land Lottery system developed in Georgia in 1805.

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After purchasing a ticket, the description of land was drawn from a barrel, and the name of the citizen receiving the land would be drawn from another barrel.

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In the early 1800's Georgia had 8 of these to distribute land in the growing state: headright systems, land lotteries, circuit riders, Yazoo deals.

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land lotteries

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What land was sold for very cheap to land companies in the Yazoo Land Act?

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land in western Georgia territory

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The Yazoo Land Act is considered a fraud because land companies ______.

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bribed legislators (the GA Government) so they could buy land cheaply

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The process first used to distribute lands in Georgia, in which a head of household received land for himself and his family was called the:

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headright system

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James Jackson led the fight to nullify this land act.

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Yazoo Land Fraud

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Which of the following would be considered a head of household during the Westward Expansion period? 19 year old widow, 21 year old enslaved male, 21 year old white female, 22 year old white male

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22 year old white male

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Before the Yazoo Land Fraud, what two present day states were once part of Georgia?

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Alabama and Mississippi

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The "Headright" system and the Land Lottery of 1805 were similar in that each

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was a method used by the state government to distribute land in west Georgia