Westward Expansion SS8H4

What was the reason for chartering the University of Georgia?

• Make education available to all people, not just the wealthy
• educate GA's slave population
• educate GA's militia
• establish a women's only school

Georgia continued to move its capital westward to Louisville, then Milledgeville, and finally Atlanta to

• avoid continued pirate raids on the east coast
• meet federal government requirements
• follow the growing population
• open eastern lands to the American Indians

What was the purpose of the Georgia’s land policies?

• It established a method of counting the population
• To give away newly gained lands and promote westward expansion
• It provided an organized system of collecting taxes
• It administered voting and election districts

Why was the land lottery more successful than the headright system?

• More land was distributed to settlers
• It sold all open lands to the government
• it created peace with American Indians
• More settlers moved to the eastern coast.

Why did Georgia give up land claims in what is now Mississippi and Alabama?

• The federal government wanted to set that land aside for the Indian population
•  The state did not have the millions of dollars required to purchase the land from Spain.
• The state could not claim the land because the General Assembly illegally sold it to private companies.
• They did not need the land because people desired to stay closer to the eastern coast for trade.

The Yazoo land fraud occurred because land companies 

• bribed legislators so they could buy land cheaply
• took land from the American Indians by force.
• made illegal treaties with the Americans Indians.
• llegally sold the land to Spain to set up missions.

How were railroads beneficial to Georgia’s businessmen and farmers? 

• increased tourism through sightseeing 
• offered faster and easier transportation of goods
• offered a non-polluting transportation option
• made horses unnecessary for travel

Which technological development led to an increased demand for slaves in the United States during the early- to mid-1800s? 

• steel plow
• cotton gin
• railroads
• the spinning jenny

William McIntosh, a Creek chief, was murdered by his own people because he 

• fell to defeat in a fight with the Georgia militia.
• was the cousin of Georgia’s Governor George Troup.
• signed a peace treaty with the Cherokee Indians without permission.
• signed a treaty giving up the last Creek lands in Georgia to the federal government.

Because of McIntosh’s leadership, the Creek Indians

• were displaced from their homes and their lands.
• moved west to escape the rule of the government.
• enjoyed great wealth after moving to gold-rich areas.
• were able to buy back their lands from the government.