Unit 6: Westward Expansion-Part I

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

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

2. Why was UGA established?

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

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

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

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

A) Established a method of counting population
B) Provided an organized system of collecting taxes
C) To create a buffer zone of new settlers in GA's backcountry
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) freedom fighters
B) headright systems
C) Yazoo deals
D) land lotteries

6. The Yazoo Land Fraud occurred because land companies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A) S.L.A.M.A.
B) S.A.L.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 provided an organized system of collecting taxes
B) To distribute newly gained lands and promote westward expansion
C) It established a method of counting the population
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 federal government wanted to set that land aside for the Indian population
B) The state could not claim the land because the General Assembly illegally sold it to private companies.
C) The state did not have the millions of dollars required to purchase the land from Spain.
D) They did not need the land because people desired to stay closer to the eastern coast for trade.

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