Unit 6 SS8H4b- Land Distribution Policies Damarys Mendez

Name ________________________ 1

SS8H4:b – Evaluate the impact of land policies pursued by Georgia; include the Headright System, Land
Lo eries, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.
Headright System
• To resolve disputes over land acquisition
Why was the Headright system started? __________________________________
• _________________________________________________________________
• Former ________________
soldiers that fought in the Revolutionary War were eligible to
free
receive ______________ land
_____________.
• It stated that ___________
white males 21 or older and considered the “_________”
head of the
__________________
household rights
were granted “__________” to receive up to _______
200
__________
acres of land.
• Men with families or
What qualifications would allow white men to have more land? _________________
• slaves
__________________________________________________________________
• Until there were more claimants than land to offer
What caused this system to end? _________________________________________
• __________________________________________________________________

The Yazoo Land Act - 1795

• named
The Act was ____________ after
river
a _______________ in GA’s western
now
boundary (in what is _________ the
Mississippi
state of _____________________).

• The Act – was written by

corrupt
____________ GA _______________,
politicians
who were part of the group purchasing
illegally
the land_______________. They sold
the land to land speculators at a low
price. That group started
___________________
selling the land for
profit
________________.

The politicians and the land speculators

** Who got wealthy from this? _______________________________________________
Result of the Yazoo Land Fraud
• very
Georgians became _________ upset
______________ that the land was sold so cheaply to
________________
corrupt people.
• General
The GA ________________ Assembly
______________ passed the ________________
Rescinding _____
Act
and ________________
reversed all of the _______
land _____________.
sales However, some people
had already bought and worked the land sold to them.
Unit 6 SS8H4b- Land Distribution Policies Damarys Mendez
Name ________________________ 2
• Georgia politicians made a deal with the Federal Government

$1.25
– They sold the disputed land to the Federal Government for _______
million
______________ dollars
______________.

– GA ___________
lost Alabama
possession of the land now known as _____________ and

______________
Mississippi

remove
– The federal government agreed to ______________ Creek
the ______________

Indians from GA so that Georgians could ______________

settle on that land in

western Georgia.

Land Lotteries 1803-1833

• gamble
This allowed eligible Georgians to “________________” for land. Buy a ticket for a
chance
________________ win
to ______________ land.

• Who was eligible to “win” more land? ______________________________________

White males, heads of households, war veterans

• and windows
__________________________________________________________________

• __________________________________________________________________

• Creek and
Which Indian tribes lost land to white settlers during the land lottery? __________

• Cherokee
__________________________________________________________________