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) Harvard University
D) The University of North Carolina

2. Why was UGA established?

A) To compete against Georgia Tech
B) Georgia needed a university to match other states' education programs
C) Without it, Athens would have died
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) The people kept moving west, and so went the capital with the people.
B) To hide it from our enemies.
C) The citizens wanted it to be Atlanta and needed to slowly move the capital closer.
D) It needed to be moved away from the ocean in case of an attack.

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

A) Administered voting and election districts
B) Provided an organized system of collecting taxes
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) headright systems
C) Yazoo deals
D) freedom fighters

6. The Yazoo Land Fraud occurred because land companies

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

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 Mississippi River
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) 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) Lyman Hall
C) Abraham Baldwin
D) William Few

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

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