western expansion

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

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

• Abraham Baldwin

• Lyman Hall

• William Few

• John Milledge

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.

All of these cities have been capitals of the state of Georgia but one. Which has NOT been a capital of Georgia?

• Augusta

• Louisville

• Macon

• Milledegville

From 1796 to 1807, the capital of Georgia was "Louisville." Why was the city was named "Louisville"?

• The city was founded by settlers who immigrated from France.

• The area was settled by a large number of people who moved to Georgia from Kentucky.

• It was named in honor of the the King of France who supported the Americans in the Revolution.

• It was named in honor of the immigrant soldiers who helped defend the town during the American Revolution.

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

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

• Louisville

• Lumpkin

• Terminus

• Yamacraw Bluff

What was the purpose of Georgia’s land policies?

• It established a method of counting the population

• To distribute newly gained lands and promote westward expansion

• It provided an organized system of collecting taxes

• It administered voting and election districts

In the state's new headright system, the head of the house got 200 acres with a cap of _____ acres?

• 1000

• 2500

• 500

• 1200

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 American Indians.

• llegally sold the land to Spain to set up missions.