Westward Expansion TEST

Who established the University of Georgia?

• William Few

• Abraham Baldwin

• Andrew Jackson

• John Marshall

The University of Georgia was

• The first state-supported university chartered in the US.

• Founded prior to the American Revolution.

• Based on other state-supported universities that were founded earlier in the US.

• Renamed Franklin College during the Civil War.

The willingness to use new methods in order to spread their faith and establish churches throughout the Georgia frontier enabled which of the following groups to impact Georgia after the revolutionary war?

• Mormons and Catholics

• Highland Scots and Salzburgers

• Baptists and Methodists

• Jews and Muslims

What do these cities have in common: Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, and Atlanta?

• Cities founded by Oglethorpe

• Cities that serve as key ports

• Cities that were burned during Sherman’s March to the Sea

• Cities that have served as Georgia’s capital

After the Revolutionary War, Georgia’s capital moved from Savannah to

• Atlanta

• Louisville

• Milledgeville

• Macon

Headrights and lotteries in the early 1800s were the result of what?

• Falling cotton prices

• Disputes over vast stretches of land

• Debates over slavery

• Reconstruction

Two factors that influenced who was eligible for Georgia’s land lotteries of the 1800s were

• Military service and educational background.
• Residency requirements and status as a white male citizen.
• Age restrictions and land ownership history.
• Gender equality and economic status.

Events in which Georgians had the chance to win the right to buy land from the state were

• Land lotteries.

• Headright systems.

• Circuit riders.

• Yazoo deals.

What was one way Georgia’s politicians thought to secure western Georgia?

• The headright system gave plots of land to heads of families.

• Native Americans were forced from Georgia’s borders.

• Land lotteries made it easier for families to buy land.

• The Yazoo land sale opened up millions of acres to settlement.

Legislators were bribed to sell land at a very low price in the

• Yazoo Land Fraud.

• Yazoo Land Lottery.

• Georgia Land Scandal.

• Land Purchase Plan