Yazoo Land Fraud
What is the Yazoo Land Fraud?
Land is sold to companies for unbelievably low prices.
What year did UGA start?
1785
How many capitals were there in Georgia?
There were 5 capitals in Georgia.
What is Land Lottery?
Gave average Georgians opportunity to gain large amounts of land.
Who invented the cotton gin, and what year?
Who is Eli Whitney in 1793.
Who was bribed during the Yazoo Land Fraud?
Governor and General Assembly had been bribed
The University of Georgia is America's FIRST_______
(Finish the Sentence)
Public University
What was the first capital of Georgia?
What is Savannah.
From 1805-1833, Georgia had how many land lotteries?
They had 8
The cotton gin could remove how many pounds of what per day?
It could remove 50 pounds of cotton per day.
What is now today Alabama and Mississippi was sold to ___________________.
(Finish the sentence)
Much of the land that would become Alabama and Mississippi was sold to:
Four land companies for $500,000.
Who was the governor who allocated land for UGA?
Who is Lyman Hall.
What was the third capital of Georgia & the one after the next.
Louisville, and Atlanta
People could buy more tickets based on?
Age, Marital status, War service, Orphans and widows eligible
What helped make many Georgia city's and transport people and cotton?
What are Railroads.
Name the Governor & the certain Legislator who Bribed.
(Hint~ The two in PowerPoint)
William Few, and George Matthews
What was one the first UGA buildings?
Franklin College/ Old College
The capitals followed ____ when they moved?
(Fill in the Blank)
The people.
How did land lottery work?
Eligible names sent to the state, Participants paid for ticket ,Participants’ names were placed in one drum, The lots bearing a number would be placed in a second drum.
What year did the Dahlonega Gold Rush start, and because of this discovery who did not bode well for.
It was discovered in 1828, and it did not bode well for the Cherokee.
At the burning of the Yazoo Land Act what did they call it?
The Holy Fire from Heaven.
What is a Land Grant?
Land is set aside by the federal government to create a university.
What is the way to remember the Georgia capital, and name them?
S.A.L.M.A
Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville, Atlanta
Name how many Land Lotteries Georgia had and how they worked and where eligible peoples names went.
8 Land Lotteries, They're drawn out of a bucket full of names, Eligible names went to the state.
All Cherokee tribes were told to go to what town, what would be signed, and _____ would give up all land to the US
The Cherokee's were told to go to New Echota, and that a treaty would be signed, and the CEDE would give all land to the US.