Question

Match the correct term and definition. s: Headright System University of Georgia Yazoo Land Fraud Land Lottery 1. The first state sponsored public University in the U.S.; founded in 1785. 2. Land allocation approach that provided the head of family up to 200 acres of free land in the Georgia frontier. 3. Land allocation approach that gave the average Georgian a chance to buy land at pennies on the dollar. 4. An event where land companies bribed members of the Georgia General Assembly to sell land for pennies on the dollar.

Answer 1

Headright System

2. Land Allocation Approach that provided the head of the family up to 200 acres of free land in the Georgia frontier

University of Georgia

1. The first state sponsored public University in the U.S.

Yazoo Land Fraud

4. An event where land companies bribed members of the Georgia General Assembly to sell land for pennies on the dollar.

Land Lottery

3. Land allocation approach that gave the average Georgian a chance to buy land at pennies on the dollar.