Westward Expansion

T/F: Abraham Baldwin & William Few were the two men from Georgia who signed the Declaration of Independence

• True
• False

T/F: The Americans purposely made the Articles of Confederation weak b/c of their negative experience with King George III & Great Britain

• True
• False

T/F: The Articles of Confederation were the first written constitution of the USA

• True
• False

T/F: The Georgia Constitution of 1777 gave too much power to the executive branch

• True
• False

T/F: Abraham Baldwin was an important figure at the Constitutional Convention because his vote helped influence the creation of a biicameral legislature

• True
• False

T/F: UGA was the first state chartered university in America

• True
• False

T/F: Baptists and Catholics are the two main religious denominations in Georgia

• True
• False

T/F: The headright system and land lotteries were two plans Georgia used to distribute the state’s western land

• True
• False

T/F: The discovery of gold on Cherokee land in Dahlonega started a land rush that ultimately led to the removal of the Cherokee Indians.

• True
• False

T/F: The Yazoo land fraud resulted in Georgia increasing its land size by 2/3

• True
• False