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25 de ago. de 2023 · Learn how a corrupt land scheme involving Georgia, the federal government, and investors led to a Supreme Court case that established the supremacy of federal laws over state laws. See maps and historical markers of the Yazoo Lands, which could have made Georgia a \"super state\" if not for the scandal.
Map of the American Deep south, showing the three areas which constituted the 1789 Yazoo land scandal. In about 1789, a secret society called the Combined Society was formed; the members' sole purpose was to make money by land speculation.
12 de sept. de 2002 · Learn about the Yazoo land fraud, a controversial sale of 35 million acres in present-day Alabama and Mississippi by Georgia in 1795. Find out how it shaped Georgia politics, relations with the federal government, and the states' rights movement.
See a lithograph of the land purchased by four companies in 1795 Georgia, which later became known as the Yazoo land fraud. Learn about the history and details of this controversial transaction that involved bribery, corruption and violence.
Yazoo land fraud, in U.S. history, scheme by which Georgia legislators were bribed in 1795 to sell most of the land now making up the state of Mississippi (then a part of Georgia’s western claims) to four land companies for the sum of $500,000, far below its potential market value.
Learn about the Yazoo Land Fraud, one of the most corrupt deals in American history, when Georgia sold 35 million acres of western land to four companies for $500,000 in 1795. See the map of the land purchases and the legal battles that followed.
19 de abr. de 2021 · Learn how Georgia tried to sell its claims to Mississippi and Alabama land to four companies in 1794, but was overturned by a new legislature in 1795. Find out how the land companies sued the U.S. government and won in 1810, establishing the supremacy of federal laws over state laws.
