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. What does this text describe?
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, <u>the Georgia land lotteries allowed people to register for an opportunity to win land which had been previously inhabited by Native Americans</u>, such as the Cherokee and Creek Indians, who resisted to keep their land.
