Which methods did Georgia use to distribute land in the late 1700s and early 1800s? Options: collective bargaining and issuing bonds, speculation and sharecropping, the headright system and the land lottery, the land−use plan and the embargo system
SS8H4b GA Land Policies

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the headright system and the land lottery
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Identify the most correct description of the Land Lottery system developed in Georgia in 1805.
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After purchasing a ticket, the description of land was drawn from a barrel, and the name of the citizen receiving the land would be drawn from another barrel.
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In the early 1800's Georgia had 8 of these to distribute land in the growing state: headright systems, land lotteries, circuit riders, Yazoo deals.
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land lotteries
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What land was sold for very cheap to land companies in the Yazoo Land Act?
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land in western Georgia territory
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The Yazoo Land Act is considered a fraud because land companies ______.
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bribed legislators (the GA Government) so they could buy land cheaply
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The process first used to distribute lands in Georgia, in which a head of household received land for himself and his family was called the:
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headright system
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James Jackson led the fight to nullify this land act.
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Yazoo Land Fraud
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