Tickets were placed into two drums: one drum contained the names of various parcels of land, and the other contained individuals' names. A ticket selected from the "land" drum was matched to a ticket selected from the drum containing people's names.

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Group of answer choices

Georgia's land lotteries

Georgia's headright system

federal land grant charters

the Yazoo land fraud

Georgia's land lotteries

Explanation:

In 1785, the University of Georgia was authorized as a land grant university, which meant that the federal government donated the land for the college. Thus, in the early 1800's, the Georgia land lotteries allowed people to register for an opportunity to win land which had been previously inhabited by Native Americans, such as the Cherokee and Creek Indians, who resisted to keep their land.