The Headright System was the first land distribution system that gave heads of households up 1,000 acres of land.

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Land lotteries replaced the Headright System after the Yazoo Land Fraud was made public.

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Land lotteries gave Georgians the opportunity to gain a large amount of land for cheap.

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A person would submit their names to the state and pay for a ticket. These names were placed in a drum. A second drum contained the a number that corresponded with a plot of land. Land officials would pick one name from one drum and a second name from the land drum – the person picked would win that land.