H4 Quiz 2

Which system offered Georgia settlers 200 acres of free land, with an additional 50 acres per family member or slave?

• the Land Lottery
• the County Unit System
• the Cherokee cession
• the Headright System

The statements below are referring to___.
-Georgia sold 40,000,000 acreas of land for $500,000 to 4 land companies.
-Many Georgia politicians were stockholders in the companies buying the land.
-The land was resold to full profit with massive payoffs to Georgia politicians involved in the original sale.

• the Land Lottery
• the Yazoo Land Fraud
• the Teapot Dome Scandal
• the Headright System

-invented by Eli Whitney in 1703
-cleaned the cotton by removing the seeds
-increased daily production rates from one pound per day, per worker, to as much as 50 pounds per day, per worker

The above statements are describing the... 

• cotton gin
• grist mill
• John Deer plow
• McCormick reaper 

One of the major effects of the introduction and widespread usage of Eli Whitney's cotton gin was that

• slavery was abolished in four Southern states.
• it led directly to passage of the Fugitive Slave Act
• the demand for slaves grew to keep up with the increased production
• the demand for slaves dropped since the work could be done more efficiently.

Which Georgia institution is being described by these statements?

-chartered in 1785 by the Georgia General Assembly
-founded by Abraham Baldwin who also served as the university's first president
-the oldest public university in the nation
-the largest of the state's institutions of higher learning

• Georgia State University
• The University of Georgia
• Georgia Southern University
• The Georgia Institute of Technology

What is true about the construction of the first railroads in Georgia?

• They decreased trade.
• They helped end slavery.
• They improved agriculture.
• They helped develop cities.

Read the following statements. What are they describing?
-By the mid-1830s routes connected Athens, Augusta, Macon, and Savannah.
-It led to the construction of Terminus in 1837 which would provide a link between Savannah and the midwest.
-Georgia claimed more miles than any other state in the Deep South in 1850.

• Georgia's canal system
• Georgia's railroad system
• Georgia's freeway system
• the Georgia department of transportation

The railroad caused the development of what Georgia city?

• Atlanta
• Augusta
• Macon
• Savannah

The city of Savannah was founded by the British in 1733. Which number represents Savannah?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4