Unit 6: Westward Expansion-Part I

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

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

2. Why was UGA established?

A) To compete against Georgia Tech
B) Without it, Athens would have died
C) Georgia needed a university to match other states' education programs
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) It needed to be moved away from the ocean in case of an attack.
B) To hide it from our enemies.
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) Administered voting and election districts
C) To create a buffer zone of new settlers in GA's backcountry
D) Established a method of counting population

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

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

6. The Yazoo Land Fraud occurred because land companies

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

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

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

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

A) establish a women's only school
B) educate GA's slave population
C) educate GA's militia
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) Lyman Hall
C) Abraham Baldwin
D) John Milledge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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