USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Yazoo Land Frauds of 1789 and 1795 involved the portion of Georgia west from the Chattahoochee River to the Mississippi River and northward from the thirty-first parallel to what is now the Tennessee state line, forming the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jared Irwin and U.S. Senator James Jackson led the reform efforts: Irwin was elected Governor of Georgia and, less than two months after taking office, signed a bill on February 13, 1796 nullifying the Yazoo Act. The state burned all copies of the bill except for one that had been sent to President George Washington.

Detailed explanation-3: -Yazoo Land Fraud Contrary to its initial hopes, Georgia lost rather than gained from the Yazoo land scheme. The state lost a large part of its land and a lot of money because of the failed plan. The legislature eventually gave in to the federal government and in 1802 ceded its land west of the Chattahoochee River.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Yazoo land fraud took place in 1795, when four companies bribed members of the Georgia legislature to sell 35 million acres of land for just $500, 000 (1.5 cents per acre). After the Yazoo Act was passed, the people of Georgia were outraged and voted most of the legislators out of office.