Everything about The Yazoo Lands totally explained
The
Yazoo lands were the sparsely-populated central and western areas of the
U.S. state of
Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the
Mississippi River. It was named for the
Yazoo tribe of
Native Americans. Several other places and things were named
Yazoo, either for or along with the lands.
These lands later became the states of
Alabama and
Mississippi. The far western
panhandle of Spanish territory
Florida became the panhandles of the two states, and a small strip
claimed by South Carolina (see
Treaty of Beaufort), also going west to the river, became their border counties with
Tennessee (itself a former part of
North Carolina) in the
Treaty of 1816.
In the
1790s, the Yazoo lands were the subject of a major
political scandal in the state of
Georgia, called the
Yazoo Land Fraud. It led to Georgia's cession of the land to the
U.S. government in the
Compact of 1802.
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