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Historical marker at the site of the Georgia Capitol at the time. The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor George Mathews [1] and the Georgia General Assembly.
Map showing the Yazoo lands as "Disputed until 1802 by Georgia and the United States" The Yazoo lands were the central and western regions of the U.S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi. [1] The Yazoo lands were named for the Yazoo nation, that lived on the lower course of the Yazoo, in what is now ...
Wereat was a delegate for Georgia in the Continental Congress [3] and Governor of Georgia in 1779. During his term as governor, he fought against the Yazoo land fraud, organizing the Georgia Union Company in an attempt to buy western lands and prevent them from inclusion in the Yazoo sales. [4]
It was an environment ripe for scandal and speculation, which took place in Georgia and other states. Because of public outrage about millions of acres of state lands' being sold for low prices to insider speculators, Irwin was elected Governor in 1795 to clean up the Yazoo land scandal. On February 13, 1796, less than two months after taking ...
Tattnall and Jackson both opposed the Yazoo land scandal, the massive real estate fraud led by Georgia governor George Mathews and the General Assembly that rocked early Georgia politics. Jackson resigned his position as U.S. senator to return to the Georgia General Assembly, where he and Tattnall led the campaign against the sale of the Yazoo ...
Days of protests have rocked Georgia following the government’s controversial decision to delay the former Soviet country’s bid to join the European Union. Georgia is being rocked by growing ...
Bourbon County, Georgia was a county of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1785 to 1788 (236 years ago) ().The county was created by Georgia in 1785 as part of the Yazoo land scandal out of disputed Yazoo lands in present-day Mississippi and was dissolved in 1788 due to pressure from the federal government.
Fake video of Georgia voter fraud is Russian misinformation, US officials say. Josh Meyer, USA TODAY. Updated November 1, 2024 at 5:57 PM.