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Unit 6: Westward Expansion-Part I - Quiz
Contributed by: Branford
  • 1. What was the first public university to receive a charter in the United States?
A) Emory University
B) The University of North Carolina
C) The University of Georgia
D) Harvard University
  • 2. Why was UGA established?
A) Without it, Athens would have died
B) To compete against Georgia Tech
C) Land grants made it possible to provide public education opportunities
D) Georgia needed a university to match other states' education programs
  • 3. What was the sole purpose of the changing of location for the state capital?
A) To hide it from our enemies.
B) The people kept moving west, and so went the capital with the people.
C) The citizens wanted it to be Atlanta and needed to slowly move the capital closer.
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) 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) Yazoo deals
B) freedom fighters
C) headright systems
D) land lotteries
  • 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 southern border became St. Mary's River
B) Georgia's western border became the Mississippi River
C) Georgia's borders did not change.
D) Georgia's western border became the Chattahoochee River
  • 8. What was the reason for chartering the University of Georgia?
A) educate GA's slave population
B) educate GA's militia
C) establish a women's only school
D) Make education available to all people, not just the wealthy
  • 9. The author of the charter of the first public university in the United States was __________
A) William Few
B) Lyman Hall
C) Abraham Baldwin
D) John Milledge
  • 10. Which acronym places Georgia's state capitals in order from first to last
A) S.A.L.M.A
B) S.E.L.M.A
C) L.E.S.M.A
D) S.L.A.M.A.
  • 11. What was the purpose of Georgia’s land policies?
A) It established a method of counting the population
B) It administered voting and election districts
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 did not have the millions of dollars required to purchase the land from Spain.
B) The federal government wanted to set that land aside for the Indian population
C) The state could not claim the land because the General Assembly illegally sold it to private companies.
D) They did not need the land because people desired to stay closer to the eastern coast for trade.
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