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The Georgia Lottery Corporation, known as the Georgia Lottery, is overseen by the government of Georgia, United States. Headquartered in Atlanta , the lottery takes in over US$1 billion yearly. By law, half of the money goes to prizes , one-third to education , and the remainder to operating and marketing the lottery.
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[1] [2] The lottery system was utilized by the State of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833 “to strengthen the state and increase the population in order to increase Georgia's power in the House of Representatives.” [3] Although some other states used land lotteries, none were implemented at the scale of the Georgia contests. [4]
The Gold Lottery of 1832 was the seventh lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the State of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833 to redistribute annexed Cherokee land. It was authorized by the Georgia General Assembly by an act of December 24, 1831 a few years after the start of the Georgia Gold Rush .
The 1821 Land Lottery was the fourth lottery of the Georgia Land Lotteries, a lottery system used by the U.S. state of Georgia between the years 1805 and 1833 to appropriate Cherokee and Muscogee land and redistribute it to settlers. The 1821 lottery was authorized by the Georgia General Assembly by an act of May 16, 1821.
The 1820 lottery were used to obtain Muscogee land and redistribute it to settlers of various qualifications. Following the Creek War (1813–1814), President Andrew Jackson demanded from the Muscogee an immense area of land which would become the southern third of the entire state of Georgia. A second section of land in northeast Georgia was ...
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