JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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Question
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The governor of Georgia sold land to the State of Alabama for way below market pricing.
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State legislators were bribed to sell land to land speculators
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The federal government took over land that belonged to the state.
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The federal government passed a law stating that all land owners must sign the Yazoo Land Act Agreement agreeing to grow cotton.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1795 Georgia governor Georgia Mathews signed the Yazoo Act, which transferred 35 million acres of the state’s western territory to four separate companies for a sum of $500, 000.
Detailed explanation-2: -The biggest result of the Yazoo Land Fraud was the Supreme Court case Fletcher v. Peck. The court ruled in 1810 that contracts could not be retroactively negated, and marked the first time the Supreme Court overturned a state law.
Detailed explanation-3: -Spanish claims to the Georgia territory were resolved with the 1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo; Native American claims to the area were extinguished by a series of treaties ending in the 1820s. Legal challenges to Georgia’s attempt to repeal the sale reached the Supreme Court in 1810.
Detailed explanation-4: -What was the most damaging result of the Yazoo land fraud in Georgia? Georgia lost money as well as lands west of the Chattanooga River.