Weekly Quizizz 11/18-11/24

Which Georgia institution was created to guarantee that "all people, not just the wealthy and privileged, have a right to education"?

• Mercer University

• Abraham Baldwin College

• University of Georgia

• The Georgia Institute of Technology

Which land policy gave away land by matching 202 or 490 acre plots with numbered tickets held by potential settlers?

• the Land Lottery

• the Headright System

• the Cherokee Cession

• the Yazoo Land Act

Which term refers to the massive fraud perpetrated by several Georgia governors and the state legislature from 1795 to 1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at absurdly low prices?

• the Land Lottery

• the Yazoo Land Act

• the Headright System

• the County Unit System

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

• was a major cause of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend and the War of 1812

• contained provisions to preserve Creek and Cherokee ownership of the land

• was a method used by the state governments to distribute public land to settlers

• required males between the ages of 16 and 60 to work on local roads at least 12 days per year

The Charter of the University of Georgia was important to education MAINLY because it

• was mostly written by Abraham Baldwin

• was signed three years before the US Constitution

• said that education was the responsibility of the state

• said that the university should be located in Louisville

Until 1802, the western boundary of Georgia was the Mississippi River. What caused Georgia to give up its land claims in present-day Mississippi and Alabama?

• The state could not raise enough funds to purchase the territory from the Spanish

• The General Assembly decided that the expense of defending the territory from Native American attacks was too great

• The state ceded the land to the federal government in exchange for just over one million dollars to settle the Yazoo Land Fraud

• The federal government wanted to set the land aside as reservations for the Native Americans that were being relocated from the east

Savannah

Augusta

Louisville

Milledgeville

Atlanta

What would be the BEST title for this list of cities?

• Locations of Revolutionary War battles

• Locations of the University of Georgia

• Capitals of Colonial Georgia

• Capitals of Georgia

Which system offered Georgia settlers 200 acres of free land, with an additional 50 acres per family member or slave?

• the Land Lottery

• the Headright System

• the Cherokee Cession

• the County Unit System

This city, now the county seat of Jefferson County, was Georgia's third capital from 1796-1807.

• Augusta

• Louisville

• Milledgeville

• Savannah

Which strategy did Georgian politicians use to try to secure western Georgia?

• They passed the Yazoo Act to help several companies settle millions of acres

• They created land lotteries to encourage wealthy families to buy land

• They used the headright system to give plots of land to war veterans

• They moved Georgia’s capital city to the western part of the state