SS8H4: Westward Expansion and Creek and Cherokee Removal

The first public university in United States history was _______.

• University of Georgia

• Georgia Tech

• University of Wisconsin

• Georgia State University

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

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

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 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

The process first used to distribute lands in Georgia, in which a head of household received land for himself and his family was called the:

• headright system

• land lottery

• cession

• roulette

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

• 1000

• 2500

• 500

• 1200

Why was the land lottery more successful than the headright system?

• More land was distributed to settlers

• It sold all open lands to the government

• It created peace with American Indians

• More settlers moved to the eastern coast.

Which BEST describes why Georgia gave up land claims in what is now Mississippi and Alabama?

• The federal government wanted to set that land aside for the Indian population

• The state did not have the millions of dollars required to purchase the land from Spain.

• The state could not claim the land because the General Assembly illegally sold it to private companies.

• They did not need the land because people desired to stay closer to the eastern coast for trade.