Question

Passed in 1803, the Land Lottery sought to distribute land grants that the state had recently acquired from the ____ and the ___.

Answer 1

The Georgia General Assembly created the Land Lottery system in 1803 to distribute land that had recently been taken from the Creek and Cherokee Indians. Over 3/5ths of the state's land was distributed in this manner, and countless thousands of Creek and Cherokee Indians were pushed from their homelands in the process

Answer 2

The correct answer to this open question is 1) Cherokee and 2) Creek.

Passed in 1803, the Land Lottery sought to distribute land grants that the state had recently acquired from the Cherokee and the Creek.

It was the General Assembly of Georgia that passed the Act that gave permisson to the Lottery to distribute the land formerly owned by the Native American Tribes of the Cherokee and the Creek. From 1805 to 1833, the government of the state organized land lotteries in 1805, 1807, 1820, 1821, 1827, and 1833, for a total of eight.