GA Land Policies SS8H4b

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

• It established a method of counting the population
• To give away newly gained lands and promote westward expansion
• It provided an organized system of collecting taxes
• It administered voting and election districts

Which methods did Georgia use to distribute land in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

• collective bargaining and issuing bonds

• speculation and sharecropping

• the headright system and the land lottery

• the land−use plan and the embargo system

In 1805, Georgia's lottery system was developed to distribute western land, identify the most correct description of the Land Lottery system.

• Heads of households received 160 acres plus 50 more acres for each family member

• After purchasing a ticket, the description of land was drawn from a barrel, and the name of the citizen receiving the land would be drawn from another barrel

• Officials sold the land in parcels to investors who resold it to citizens really cheap by purchasing a ticket for the land

• Bribing of government officials to purchase land through treaties and deals after purchasing a ticket

Which of Georgia's land policies is being described below:

°Granted between 200-1000 acres of land

°Plus additional 50 acres for each additional family member

°Head of the Household

°Land grants given to Revolutionary War Veterans/farmers & ranchers

°Encourage growth & expansion in Georgia

(a)  

In the early 1800's Georgia had 8 of these to distribute land in the growing state.

• headright systems

• land lotteries

• circuit riders

• Yazoo deals

True or False? People knew what land they would win in a Land Lottery.

(a)  

What land was sold for very cheap to land companies in the Yazoo Land Act?

• Indian lands in north Georgia

• land in western Georgia territory

• land in Florida

• land in east Georgia territory

The Yazoo Land Act is considered a fraud because land companies ______.

• claimed land that had been acquired illegally

• took land from the Native Americans by force

• made illegal treaties with the Native Americans

• bribed legislators (the GA Government) so they could buy land cheaply

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

• allocation by price

James Jackson led the fight to nullify this land act.

• Western Territory Scam

• Mississippi Mud Mixup

• Yazoo Land Fraud

• A&M (Alabama and Mississippi) Scandal