SS8H4 GMAS PREP

What makes The University of Georgia special in regards to GA and American history.

• UGA was the first school to allow women to attend.

• UGA was the first college in GA.

• UGA was the first public college in the USA.

• UGA was the first public college in the USA to allow women and black people.

The author of the charter of the first public university in the United States was __________

• Abraham Baldwin
• Lyman Hall
• William Few

Invented in 1791 it inadvertently led a major increase in the number of slaves in the American South.

• Railroad

• Tobacco Chopper

• Cotton Gin

• Two Mule Plow

Georgia continued to move its capital westward to Louisville, then Milledgeville, and finally Atlanta to

• avoid continued pirate raids on the east coast
• meet federal government requirements
• follow the growing population
• open eastern lands to the American Indians

What was the purpose of the Georgia’s land policies?

• It established a method of counting the population

• To give away land which promoted the growth and prosperity of GA.

• It provided an organized system of collecting taxes

• It administered voting and election districts

How were railroads beneficial to Georgia’s businessmen and farmers?

• increased tourism through sightseeing

• offered faster and easier transportation of goods.

• offered a non-polluting transportation option

• made horses unnecessary for travel

Which acronym places Georgia's state capitals in order from first to last

• S.E.L.M.A

• L.E.S.M.A

• S.A.L.M.A

• S.L.A.M.A.

Prior to being named "Atlanta," the city was known as both "Marthasville" and

• Louisville

• Lumpkin

• Terminus

• Yamacraw

Which of the following is correct concerning the map?

• 1 - Savannah 2- Louisville 3 - Augusta 4 - Milledgeville 5 - Atlanta

• 1 - Savannah 2 - Augusta 3 - Louisville 4 - Milledgeville 5 - Atlanta

• 1 Milledgeville 2 Augusta 3 - Atlanta 4 - Savannah 5 - Louisville

• 1 - Louisville 2 - Louisville 3 - Louisville 4 - Savannah 5 - Atlanta

The Yazoo land fraud occurred because land companies 

• bribed legislators so they could buy land cheaply
• took land from the American Indians by force.
• made illegal treaties with the Americans Indians.
• llegally sold the land to Spain to set up missions.