Westward Expansion-Unit 5

What was the purpose of the headright system in Georgia?

• It distributed Creek lands to new settlers
• It administered voting and election districts
• It provided an organized system of collecting taxes

As a "land grant university" UGA was able to increase its size and the programs offered by a grant from 

• local government
• Yazoo land companies
• the state and federal government

Why was the capital of Georgia moved many times from the colonial era until Reconstruction?

• directives from the federal government
• the changing industrial nature of the state
• the changing population center of the state

Why were most of Georgia's capitals initially located along rivers? 

• access to transportation
• access to water power
• access to interstate highways

What system replaced the headright system when giving away land?

• tomohawk rights
• land lottery
• land rush

Why did Georgia give up land claims in what is now Mississippi and Alabama?

• state didn't have the money to purchase the land from Spain
• the federal government paid millions to settle the Yazoo land fraud and disputed GA's right to land.
• the federal government wanted to save the land for the Native Americans

Why was Eli Whitney's invention important to southern states?

• it increased the profits from growing cotton 
• it made it easier for slaves to pick cotton
• it made it easier to produce cloth from wool

What would a graph of Georgia from 1800-1860 show about the number of slaves?

• no correlation between slavery and use of the cotton gin
• number of slaves decreased as the cotton gin made them less necessary
• the number of slaves increased as the cotton gin made them more necessary

What did the cotton gin do for Georgia?

• it was good for GA as it increased manual labor in the state
• helped the state's economy as it could be grown anywhere in the state
• was good for GA as cotton production increased, was bad due to increase in slavery.

What was the developing transportation in Georgia before the civil war and important to the war efforts?

• highways
• airports
• railroads