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) The University of Georgia
C) Harvard University
D) Emory University

2. Why was UGA established?

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

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) Administered voting and election districts
C) Established a method of counting population
D) To create a buffer zone of new settlers in GA's backcountry

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) Yazoo deals
C) freedom fighters
D) headright systems

6. The Yazoo Land Fraud occurred because land companies

A) claimed land that had been acquired illegally
B) made illegal treaties with the Native Americans
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 borders did not change.
B) Georgia's southern border became St. Mary's River
C) Georgia's western border became the Chattahoochee River
D) Georgia's western border became the Mississippi River

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

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

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

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

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

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