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The Cherokee Land Lottery, Containing a Numerical List of the Names of the Fortunate Drawers in Said Lottery, With an Engraved Map of Each District (view source)
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The '''Georgia land lotteries''' were an early nineteenth century system of land redistribution in [[Georgia (U.S.)|Georgia]]. Under this system, white male citizens could register for a chance to win lots of land that had (and in most cases recently) been forcibly taken from the [[Creek Indians]] and the [[Cherokee Nation (19th century)|Cherokee Nation.]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Land Lottery System|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/land-lottery-system|access-date=2020-09-16|website=www.georgiaencyclopedia.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Dwyer|first=Dustin|title=What a massive land lottery in antebellum Georgia tells us about wealth and opportunity today|url=https://stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/what-massive-land-lottery-antebellum-georgia-tells-us-about-wealth-and-opportunity-today-0|access-date=2020-09-16|website=stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org|language=en}}</ref>
The '''Georgia land lotteries''' were an early nineteenth century system of land redistribution in [[Georgia (U.S.)|Georgia]]. Under this system, white male citizens could register for a chance to win lots of land that had (and in most cases recently) been forcibly taken from the [[Creek Indians]] and the [[Cherokee Nation (19th century)|Cherokee Nation.]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Land Lottery System|url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/land-lottery-system|access-date=2020-09-16|website=www.georgiaencyclopedia.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Dwyer|first=Dustin|title=What a massive land lottery in antebellum Georgia tells us about wealth and opportunity today|url=https://stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org/post/what-massive-land-lottery-antebellum-georgia-tells-us-about-wealth-and-opportunity-today-0|access-date=2020-09-16|website=stateofopportunity.michiganradio.org|language=en}}</ref>