University of Georgia
This year Georgia’s General Assembly set aside land for UGA.
Answer: What is 1784?
This group of people were eligible to receive land under the Headright system.
Who were white male heads of households?
Under this system, heads of households received land grants.
Answer: What is the Headright System?
The scandal occurred in this year.
Answer: What is 1795?
He invented the cotton gin in 1793.
Answer: Who is Eli Whitney?
The first capital city of Georgia.
Answer: What is Savannah?
He wrote UGA’s charter, declaring education a right for all.
Answer: Who is Abraham Baldwin?
Under the Headright system, each head of household received this amount of land.
What is 200 acres plus 50 acres for each family member (up to 1,000 acres)?
The Headright system granted heads of families this many acres.
What is 200 acres plus 50 per family member (up to 1,000)?
Speculators bought millions of acres for this price.
Answer: What is about one cent per acre?
The cotton gin had this major effect on slavery.
Answer: What is it increased slavery in the South?
This city was named for King Louis XVI.
Answer: What is Louisville?
UGA opened its doors in this year.
Answer: What is 1801?
Veterans of this war were often given more land than the limit.
What is the Revolutionary War?
From 1805–1833, Georgia used this system to distribute land.
What are Land Lotteries?
Citizens reacted to the fraud by doing this dramatic act.
Answer: What is burning the Yazoo Act on the steps of the Capitol?
Savannah ranked first as a cotton seaport on this ocean.
Answer: What is the Atlantic?
Georgia’s capitals spell out this acronym: S.A.L.M.A.
Answer: What are Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta?
UGA was originally called this.
Answer: What is Franklin College?
The Headright system was designed to encourage this in Georgia.
Answer: What is population growth and settlement?
Roughly this many families gained land through the lotteries.
What is 100,000 families?
Georgia eventually ceded the land to this government in 1802.
Answer: What is the U.S. government?
In 1833, Georgia chartered this many rail lines.
Answer: What is three?
Georgia’s capital kept moving westward for this reason.
Answer: What is because the population kept moving west?
UGA was revolutionary because it was the first ______ in the U.S.
Answer: What is the first state-supported university?
A major problem with the Headright system was this.
Answer: What is corruption and land fraud (granting more land than existed)?
The Headright system often resulted in this major problem.
What is land fraud?
The Yazoo Land Fraud caused Georgia to change its system to this.
Answer: What are Land Lotteries?
This city grew out of the railroads and became Georgia’s capital in 1868.
Answer: What is Atlanta?
This town, later called Atlanta, began as a railroad hub named “Terminus.”
Answer: What is Terminus?
Why was the University of Georgia revolutionary idea in 1785?
It was the first state supported school in the US and was founded to provide higher education at a cost affordable to may Georgians.
After the American Revolution, what was Georgia's first approach to land distribution?
Headright System
GA Legislators were bribed to sell land at low prices.
What was the Yazoo Land Fraud?