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Unit 6: Westward Expansion-Part I
Contributed by: Branford
  • 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) Without it, Athens would have died
B) Land grants made it possible to provide public education opportunities
C) Georgia needed a university to match other states' education programs
D) To compete against Georgia Tech
  • 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) The citizens wanted it to be Atlanta and needed to slowly move the capital closer.
C) To hide it from our enemies.
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) Established a method of counting population
B) To create a buffer zone of new settlers in GA's backcountry
C) Provided an organized system of collecting taxes
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) headright systems
B) land lotteries
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) claimed land that had been acquired illegally
C) bribed legislators so they could buy land cheaply
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 southern border became St. Mary's River
C) Georgia's borders did not change.
D) Georgia's western border became the Mississippi River
  • 8. What was the reason for chartering the University of Georgia?
A) educate GA's militia
B) Make education available to all people, not just the wealthy
C) establish a women's only school
D) educate GA's slave population
  • 9. The author of the charter of the first public university in the United States was __________
A) Lyman Hall
B) William Few
C) John Milledge
D) Abraham Baldwin
  • 10. Which acronym places Georgia's state capitals in order from first to last
A) S.E.L.M.A
B) L.E.S.M.A
C) S.L.A.M.A.
D) S.A.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) It provided an organized system of collecting taxes
D) To distribute newly gained lands and promote westward expansion
  • 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 did not have the millions of dollars required to purchase the land from Spain.
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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