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What effect did the yazoo land fraud have on Georgia?
The Yazoo Land Fraud effected Georgia because it changed the original charter of Georgia into many other states. Dumb.
Why is the northwest ordinance of 1785 important?
It established a system of surveying and distributing Western land, promoting migration while mitigating frauds and scams.
What was the purpose of the Land Ordinance of 1785 How did it work?
How the Land Ordinance of 1785 worked is they split acres of land into 36 square miles each. Then each piece of land was sold for a $1.
How did the headright system the land lotteries and yazoo land fraud impact Georgia's grouth and economic development?
The land lottery was basicaly a lottery but with land and it afected the economy because of the iron people could find in the mountains in Georgia. The swamp area and the mountains were the two best parts you could get.
The Yazoo land fraud involved lands in the western territory of Georgia that are now which two states?
Mississippi and Alabama
What was the name of the official land distributing system in Georgia prior to the Land Lottery?
The Headright System
What is the yazoo land compromise?
The Yazoo Scandal was a large-scale fraud perpetrated by the state legislature and the governor of Georgia. The Yazoo land compromise was headed by James Madison and arranged that the state of Georgia would reimburse the third party Yazoo investors.
What is true about the land of Ordinance of 1785?
It designed a system for distributing public lands.
What is true about Land Ordinance of 1785?
It designed a system for distributing public lands.
How did the headright system lead to the yazoo land fraud?
It affected a part of then-Georgia that is now known as Mississippi. See below link:
What describes the Yazoo Land Scandal?
The Yazoo Land Scandal occurred when several Georgia governors and the state legislature were bribed and illegally sold land companies' territory at unfairly low prices.
What effect did the yazoo land fraud have on Georgia?
The Yazoo Land Fraud effected Georgia because it changed the original charter of Georgia into many other states. Dumb.
Who was responsible for the Yazoo Land Scandal?
government officials from Georgia
Why did the yazoo fraud occur?
The government of Georgia had been weakened by the Revolutionary War. It was not strong enough to defend settlements in the western part of the state. The Georgia government thought it had found a solution to this problem with the Yazoo land sale in 1795. In the Yazoo land sale, the government planned to sell 35 million acres of land in western Georgia, near the Yazoo River, to four companies for $500,000.
Why were land lotteries created in Georgia?
to make the distribution of land more fair after the Yazoo Land Fraud
How did people react to the yazoo land scandal?
some people wanted to keep there land claims
What was the name of the scandal that involved georgia governors?
The Yazoo Land Scandal
