Unit 6: Westward Expansion-Part I

1. What was the first public university to receive a charter in the United States?

A) Emory University
B) The University of Georgia
C) The University of North Carolina
D) Harvard University

2. Why was UGA established?

A) Georgia needed a university to match other states' education programs
B) Without it, Athens would have died
C) To compete against Georgia Tech
D) Land grants made it possible to provide public education opportunities

3. What was the sole purpose of the changing of location for the state capital?

A) To hide it from our enemies.
B) It needed to be moved away from the ocean in case of an attack.
C) The citizens wanted it to be Atlanta and needed to slowly move the capital closer.
D) The people kept moving west, and so went the capital with the people.

4. What was the purpose of the headright system in Georgia?

A) Provided an organized system of collecting taxes
B) To create a buffer zone of new settlers in GA's backcountry
C) Established a method of counting population
D) Administered voting and election districts

5. Events in which Georgians had the chance to win the right to buy land from the state were known as

A) Yazoo deals
B) headright systems
C) land lotteries
D) freedom fighters

6. The Yazoo Land Fraud occurred because land companies

A) made illegal treaties with the Native Americans
B) bribed legislators so they could buy land cheaply
C) claimed land that had been acquired illegally
D) took land from the Native Americans by force

7. How did Georgia's borders change as a result of the Yazoo Land Fraud?

A) Georgia's borders did not change.
B) Georgia's western border became the Chattahoochee River
C) Georgia's southern border became St. Mary's River
D) Georgia's western border became the Mississippi River

8. What was the reason for chartering the University of Georgia?

A) educate GA's slave population
B) educate GA's militia
C) establish a women's only school
D) Make education available to all people, not just the wealthy

9. The author of the charter of the first public university in the United States was __________

A) William Few
B) Abraham Baldwin
C) John Milledge
D) Lyman Hall

10. Which acronym places Georgia's state capitals in order from first to last

A) S.A.L.M.A
B) S.L.A.M.A.
C) S.E.L.M.A
D) L.E.S.M.A

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

A) It established a method of counting the population
B) It administered voting and election districts
C) To distribute newly gained lands and promote westward expansion
D) It provided an organized system of collecting taxes

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

A) They did not need the land because people desired to stay closer to the eastern coast for trade.
B) The federal government wanted to set that land aside for the Indian population
C) The state could not claim the land because the General Assembly illegally sold it to private companies.
D) The state did not have the millions of dollars required to purchase the land from Spain.

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