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Head-right System

Head-right System. It gave the “head” of the family (the dad)up to 1,000 acres of land It was replaced by a land lottery in 1803. For a small fee you could spin a wheel through chance to win land. Qualifications for land lottery: 1. White male: 21 years old, unmarried

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Head-right System

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  1. Head-right System It gave the “head” of the family (the dad)up to 1,000 acres of land It was replaced by a land lottery in 1803. For a small fee you could spin a wheel through chance to win land. Qualifications for land lottery: 1. White male: 21 years old, unmarried 2. Widows, War Veterans, Married with children

  2. Land Lottery Wheel

  3. Yazoo Land Fraud • The state legislature allowed the land to be sold for $.01 an acre to the land companies. • The company bought 50 million acres of land for $500,000 • In 1802, Georgia gave up its land West of the Chattahoochee River

  4. Yazoo Land Fraud

  5. Louisiana Purchase • In 1803, President Jefferson bought Louisiana Territory from France for $ 15 million dollars. • The Untied States now extended West to the Rocky Mountains.

  6. Louisiana Purchase

  7. Eli Whitney • He invented the cotton gin • Before the cotton gin, a worker might have been able to separate six or seven pounds of cotton. After the cotton gin about fifty pounds.

  8. Cotton Gin

  9. Transportation • Turnpike-Major highways that were built by the federal government in the early 1800’s(Pay a fee) • Railroads-The railroads shortened travel time for passengers and freight • Depression-A sharp economic down turn. Banks and businesses fail. Farmers lose their land.

  10. Turnpikes/Roads

  11. Railroads

  12. Religion • Methodist circuit riders – Ministers went from district to district and founded churches on the frontier • Joseph Smith- Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) • 1787 – Free blacks founded Springfield Baptist Church in Augusta. • 1788 – First African Baptist Church & first synagogue in Savannah • 1816 – African Methodist Episcopal Church founded by Richard Allen • 1865- First A.M.E. church in GA in Savannah

  13. Education • Land Grant University- A school for which the federal government donated the land. • 1784 – State land grant used to build UGA, first land grant university • Academies-In 1786, the government required each county to open schools, gave them no money • By 1820 – only 40 schools in GA

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