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So, what is going on Mrs. Winters?

So, what is going on Mrs. Winters?. In the years leading up to and following the American Revolution, vast tracts of land open up to white settlers in GA. How so? Whose land was it before white settlers begin taking it?. Indian Land Cessions. Okay, and…?.

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So, what is going on Mrs. Winters?

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  1. So, what is going on Mrs. Winters? In the years leading up to and following the American Revolution, vast tracts of land open up to white settlers in GA. How so? Whose land was it before white settlers begin taking it?

  2. Indian Land Cessions

  3. Okay, and…? The newly-created STATE of Georgia has a problem --- how do we give out this land?

  4. Populating the State of GA = A Top Priority Answer this: If populating the state as quickly as possible is the state of Georgia’s goal, which of the allocation methods work best?

  5. Headright System – 1773- 1803

  6. Yazoo Land Fraud – 1795-1802 BEFORE

  7. Yazoo Land Fraud – AFTER

  8. Georgia Land Lotteries http://ngeorgia.com/history/lotteries.html

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