Unit 5 Review Game

In which city is UGA’s main campus located?

• Milledgeville

• Macon

• Atlanta

• Athens

Why was the University of Georgia a “revolutionary idea” in 1785?

• It was founded to provide higher education at an affordable cost. 

• It was founded to provide education to slaves and free blacks.

• It was founded to provide higher education to women and men alike. 

Put the Ga Capitals in correct order

• Milledgeville

• Savannah

• Augusta

• Louisville

• Atlanta

After the Revolutionary War, Americans looked to expand​ (a)   . The expansion of the United States came at a heavy cost to the ​ (b)   , who were forced to give up their lands.

• Westward
• American Indians
• Northward
• Southward
• French Traders
• Loyalists

Before 1800, Georgia’s boundaries extended all the way to the ​ (a)   Georgia’s government ​ (b)    settlement in the state. Georgia hoped to increase its ​ (c)   size, which would help the state’s agriculture grow as well as give Georgia greater representation in Congress.

• Mississippi River.
• encouraged
• population
• Savannah River
• Chattahoochee River
• Discouraged
• Wealth

Georgia’s first land policy was called the headcount system. ​ (a)  

Georgia’s first land policy was meant to encourage population growth in Georgia. ​ (b)  

Under the headright system, a man with many children could gain more land than a man with few children. ​ (c)  

Georgia’s first land policy did not limit the amount of land one family could receive.  ​ (d)  

The headright system allowed veterans of the Revolutionary War to receive more land than others.  ​ (e)  

• False
• True

Answer explanation

The Headright System:

--the “head” of a family (white male) could receive 200

acres of land + additional 50 acres for each family member (including slaves).

--Families were limited to 1,000 acres.

Before 1800, Georgia’s western lands extended to which river?

• the Mississippi River

• the Oconee River

• the Savannah River

• the Altamaha River

Where was the Yazoo Territory located?

• in Georgia’s western lands, in present-day Mississippi

• in the Louisiana Territory purchased from France

• in Georgia’s southern lands and parts of Florida

• in Georgia’s eastern lands, near Savannah

What did the Yazoo Act allow Georgia’s legislature to do?

• give Georgia’s lands to veterans of the Revolutionary War

• sell 35 million acres of Georgia’s western lands to four land companies

• remove the American Indians from Georgia’s western lands

• distribute remaining land in Georgia to veterans of the Revolutionary War

The land fraud caused years of unresolved problems for Georgia. How did the state eventually resolve the issues on its western lands?

• Georgia troops took land from Georgians who refused to give up their claims.

• Georgia provided free plots of land in the west for all Georgian citizens.

• Georgia ceded all of its western lands to the U.S. national government.

• Georgia restricted white settlement to protect Native Americans.