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Which two methods were used to distribute lands in Georgia from 1733-1833?

• Headright system and land lotteries

• First come, first served and Yazoo land fraud

• Collective bargaining and co-oping

• Land speculation and land distribution

Georgia's capital moved five different times due to growing

• tax laws

• population

• land speculation

• sharecropping

Which invention caused the slave population in the South to increase greatly?

• the railroad

• the steamboat

• the cotton gin

• the boll weevil

According to the headright system, how much land did the head of the household, first get?

• 50 acres

• 200 acres

• 100 acres

• 250 acres

What were the two largest Native American tribes affected by land distribution in Georgia?

• Choctaw and Cherokee

• Creek and Cherokee

• Chickasaw and Cherokee

• Cherokee and Seminole

Georgia citizens were upset that 4 land companies bought up all of Ga's western land

• Western Territory Scam

• Mississippi Mud Mixup

• Yazoo Land Fraud

• A&M (Alabama and Mississippi) Scandal

What was Georgia's third state capital?

• Atlanta

• Milledgeville

• Macon

• Louisville

Which list shows Georgia's capitals arranged in the correct chronological order?

• Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta

• Milledgeville, Augusta, Savannah, Louisville, Atlanta

• Savannah, Atlanta, Milledgeville, Augusta, Louisville

• Louisville, Augusta, Milledgeville, Savannah, Atlanta

People bought a ticket for a chance to win land if their name was drawn from a barrel.

• Apple Barrel land system

• Land Lottery

• headright system

• Yazoo land act

What was the reason for chartering the University of Georgia?

• Make education available to all people, not just the wealthy
• educate GA's slave population
• educate GA's militia
• establish a women's only school