T en SS8H5b Th e studen t will e v a luate th e i mp act of land poli cies pu r sued by Georgia include th e headrigh t system land lotteries and th e Y a ID: 497595
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.As Georgia grew, the leaders of the state began to look for ways to attract settlers to the state, since the growth of the state depended upon the growth of the population!!!POPULATION=PROGRESS
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.GEORGIA HAD ONE RESOURCE TO ATTRACT POPULATION….…LAND!!!SS8H5 – The student will explain significant factors that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.Slide3
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.Manifest Destiny is the historical belief that the US is destined, to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean.SS8H5 – The student will explain significant factors that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.Slide4
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.The Headright SystemUntil 1803, Georgia distributed land according to the headright systemAll heads of household were entitled to 200 acres, plus 50 acres per family m
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SS8H5 – The student will explain significant factors that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.Slide5
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.The Yazoo Land Fraud of 1795• The thought of gaining free land resulted in a largeamount of corruption.Dishonest officials accepted bribes in exchange for land grants larger than the 1000 acre limit (sometimes they granted more land
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)The most famous example of corruption, known as the Yazoo Land Fraud, became the first
major scandal in American historySS8H5 – The student will explain significant factors that affected the developmen
t of
Georgia as
part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.Slide6
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.The Yazoo Land Fraud of 1795Certain land companies badly wanted to buy Georgia’s vast western territory along the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers (called the Yazoo Territory)Fou
r speculation
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the General Assembly to sell them huge tracts of land for extremely low prices, so that they co
uld sell it to others for profitSS8H5 – The student will explain significant factors that affected the development of
Georgia as
p
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rt of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.Slide7
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.The Yazoo Land Fraud of 1795SS8H5 – The student will explain significant factors that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.Slide8
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.The Yazoo Land Fraud of 1795When citizens found out, they were furious. Copies of the Yazoo Act were burned on the steps of the capital in Louisville.One of Georgia’s
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son, resigned from theSenate and vowed to personally shoot all involved in the fraudT
he Yazoo Act was repealed in1796SS8H5 – The student will explain significant factors that aff
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e United States bet
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The Yazoo Lan
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raud of 1795Many of those involved in the fraud, including Gov. George Matthews, fled the state.Because of countless lawsuits from buyers who had been cheated, Georgia agreed to give the Yazoo Territory to the U.S. government in 1
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the damagesThe Yazoo Territory became the states of Alabama and Mississippi
Georgia and North Carolina actually fought a warwith each other, called the Walton War, in 1811 overlands disputed in the Cession Act of 1802 that gavethe Yazoo Territory to the U.S. government.Slide10
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.As a result of the Yazoo Land Fraud Georgia’s land control went from…SS8H5 – The student will explain significant factors that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.To…Protected Indian lands now availablebut with Protected Indian lands opened by the Federal Government for GA to distribute.Slide11
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.As Georgia grew, the leaders of the state began to look for ways to attract settlers to the state, since the growth of the state depended upon the growth of the population!!!Land LotteriesWithout the
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ld no longer give away as much free land as it had under the Headright SystemSS8H5 – The student will
explain significant factors that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.Slide12
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud. Land LotteriesIn 1803, Georgia adopted a new system of distributing land by lottery.Land won in the lottery varied in size from 50 to 500 acres (much smaller than the 1000
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ht System)All free white men living in Georgia for one year were given one chance; widow
s or veterans were given two chancesAll of those who won
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that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.
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Ten (SS8H5b) – The student will evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the headright system, land lotteries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.Land LotteriesSS8H5 – The student will explain significant factors that affected the development of Georgia as part of the growth of the United States between 1789 and 1840.