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Question | Answer |
306. What was the purpose of the head right system in Georgia? | It distributed Indian lands to new settlers. |
307. What scandal took place when Georgia’s governor and some legislators were bribed to sell public land to private developers at below-market prices? | Yazoo land fraud |
308. Why did Georgia give up land claims in what are now Mississippi and Alabama? | The federal government paid millions to settle the Yazoo land fraud and disputed Georgia’s right to the land. |
309. What caused confusion over land ownership in Georgia after the Revolutionary War? | Lands were taken from the Tories, given away, returned to Tories, and taken again. |
310. How many acres of land could the head of a family receive under the headright system? | 1,000 acres |
311. What system replaced the headright system as a way of allocating land? | land lottery |
312. Which was NOT a provision of the land lottery? | Only men could participate |
313. Who was Georgia’s governor during the Yazoo land fraud? | George Mathews |
314. Which was NOT a result of the Yazoo land fraud? | Those who bought the land made large profits from its eventual sale |
315. The Yazoo land fraud occurred because land companies | bribed members of the legislature so they could buy land cheaply. |
316. Problems related to Georgia’s western land were settled when Georgia | gave up land to the federal government. |
317. To whom did Georgia’s governor and members of its General Assembly sell the land between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, resulting in the Yazoo land fraud? | land companies |
318. Why was Georgia unable to refund the money it received from the sale of the Yazoo lands? | Many people who bought the land wanted to keep it |
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