Land, AOC, Constitution, Indian Policy Questions Only

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

Under the _______ white men could receive up to 1,000 acres of land based on the size of their families and how many slaves they owned.

• Headright System

• Yazoo Land Act

• Land Lottery

• Homestead Act

The controversial law in which Georgia sold land in what is now Alabama and Mississippi to four land companies.

• Headright System

• Yazoo Land Act

• Land Lottery

• Homestead Act

The Yazoo land fraud occurred 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 so they could buy land cheaply

Under the _______ white men could receive up to 1,000 acres of land based on the size of their families and how many slaves they owned.

• Headright System

• Land Lottery

• Homestead Act

• Yazoo Land Act

What was the end result of the Yazoo Land Fraud?

• Georgia ceded (gave up) what is now Alabama and Mississippi to the U.S. government

• The Georgia Legislature burned the Act and pretended like it never happend

• Georgia was forced to cede (give up) what is now Alabama and Mississippi to the Native American tribes that lived there

• The Georgia Legislature gave citizens that bought land from the land companies a full refund.

In the ___________ white males could pay for a ticket and have the opportunity to win land.

• Headright System

• Yazoo Land Act

• Land Lottery

• Homestead Act

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

What was the conflict of interest for lawmakers during the Yazoo Land Fraud?

• Lawmakers wanted to live on the cheap land that the companies were giving away.

• Lawmakers owned stocks in the land company and benefitted by selling the land (bought land cheap and sold it expensive).

• Lawmakers wanted Georgia to grow and develop because of the land deals.

• Lawmakers were not legally allowed to create laws dealing with land.

What was the purpose of the Headright system and Land lottery in Georgia?

• Encouraged growth and settlement (expansion) in unsettled parts of the state of Georgia.

• Encouraged Lawmakers to buy land cheap and sell it expensive to the citizens of Georgia

• Encouraged Georgia residents to move out of the state of Georgia

• Encouraged growth in south Georgia and Florida