JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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It established a method of counting the population
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To give away newly gained lands and promote westward expansion
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It provided an organized system of collecting taxes
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It administered voting and election districts
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why was this system used? Wanted to give land to people who would build homes, farm the land, and defend it. Their goal was to strengthen the state and increase the population in order to increase Georgia’s power in the House of Representatives.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which statement correctly describes the reason for the westward movement of Georgia’s capitals? As Native Americans ceded more land, Georgia’s population expanded westward and the capital moved to stay in the center of the population.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why did Georgia give up land claims in what is now Mississippi and Alabama? The federal gov’t wanted to set that land aside for the Indian population. The state did not have the millions of dollars needed to buy the land from Spain.
Detailed explanation-4: -These land policies were known as the headright system, land lotteries and the Yazoo Land Act. The first approach employed was called the headright system. By 1783, under this system, Georgia gave thousands of acres of land to soldiers who had fought during the Revolution.