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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) 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) To hide it from our enemies.
B) The citizens wanted it to be Atlanta and needed to slowly move the capital closer.
C) It needed to be moved away from the ocean in case of an attack.
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) Administered voting and election districts
C) Provided an organized system of collecting taxes
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) Yazoo deals
B) headright systems
C) land lotteries
D) freedom fighters
  • 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) bribed legislators so they could buy land cheaply
D) took land from the Native Americans by force
  • 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 southern border became St. Mary's River
C) Georgia's western border became the Chattahoochee River
D) Georgia's borders did not change.
  • 8. What was the reason for chartering the University of Georgia?
A) Make education available to all people, not just the wealthy
B) establish a women's only school
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) 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.E.L.M.A
B) S.L.A.M.A.
C) L.E.S.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 state could not claim the land because the General Assembly illegally sold it to private companies.
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 did not have the millions of dollars required to purchase the land from Spain.
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