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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) Harvard University
D) The University of Georgia
  • 2. Why was UGA established?
A) Georgia needed a university to match other states' education programs
B) Land grants made it possible to provide public education opportunities
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) To hide it from our enemies.
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) 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) Yazoo deals
C) headright systems
D) freedom fighters
  • 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 southern border became St. Mary's River
B) Georgia's western border became the Chattahoochee 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) establish a women's only school
B) educate GA's slave population
C) Make education available to all people, not just the wealthy
D) educate GA's militia
  • 9. The author of the charter of the first public university in the United States was __________
A) William Few
B) Lyman Hall
C) John Milledge
D) Abraham Baldwin
  • 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) L.E.S.M.A
D) S.E.L.M.A
  • 11. What was the purpose of Georgia’s land policies?
A) To distribute newly gained lands and promote westward expansion
B) It established a method of counting the population
C) It provided an organized system of collecting taxes
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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