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1. The University of Georgia was the nation's first what?
2. Who was the University of Georgia's first president?
3. Who did UGA's first president believe education was for?
4. According to UGA's first president, who was responsible for making sure all citizens had an opportunity for education?
5. Name Georgia's five capitals in chronological order.
6. Why did Georgia continually move its capital northwest?
7. What was the purpose of the headright system?
8. Who received land in the headright system?
9. Explain the Yazoo Land Fraud Act?
10. Describe the Land Lottery System?

User Zkwentz
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1) First state-chartered university

2) Abraham Baldwin

3) Developing frontier states

5) Savannah, Augusta, Louisville, Milledgeville and Atlanta

6) Voters insisted that Georgia's largest city must always be the capital.

7) To attract new settlers to the region and address the labor shortage.

8) Anyone who would pay for the transportation costs of an indentured laborer.

9) The Yazoo land fraud took place in 1795, when four companies bribed members of the Georgia legislature to sell 35 million acres of land for just $500,000 (1.5 cents per acre).
10) Public lands in the interior of the state were dispersed to small yeoman farmers (i.e., farmers who cultivate their own land) based on a system of eligibility and chance.

There you have! :)

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