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How did the land lottery work?

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Anonymous

 ∙ 15y ago
Updated: 12/13/2024

Oh, dude, the land lottery was like a big ol' raffle for land in Georgia back in the day. People would enter by buying tickets, and then names were drawn to determine who got a piece of land. It was basically like winning the real estate jackpot, but with more paperwork and less confetti.

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Georgia's land lottery was an early 1900 century system of land redistribution for Georgia's citizens.

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What is land lottery?

land lottery is an early 1900 century system of land to redistribution for Georgia's citizens. answered by: precious shorter

What system replaced the headright system as a way of allocating land?

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What was the name of the official land distributing system in Georgia prior to the Land Lottery?

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