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Lorico [155]
4 years ago
5

The Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the biggest political scandals of the eighteenth century. Georgians were outraged when they foun

d out that several Georgia governors and legislators had
A. accepted bribes and illegally transferred the state's land to North Carolina.
B. accepted bribes and illegally sold the state's land at unfairly low prices.
C. authorized the state militia to forcibly remove tribes to the Indian Territory.
D. authorized the United States government to pass the Indian Removal Act.
History
1 answer:
sladkih [1.3K]4 years ago
7 0

Answer:

B. Accepted bribes and illegally sold the state's land at unfairly low prices, is the correct answer.

Explanation:

The Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the most infamous fraud in which Georgia governors and state legislature was involved in selling vast tract of lands to insiders at cheap prices from 1798 to 1803. The land fraud included receiving land as gifts. The governors involved in this fraud were George Walton, Edward Telfair, George Mathews and Jared Irwin.  They all granted land gifts that amounted to more than 2,600,000 aces. It included 1000 acres of single and multiple land grants. There was public furore when the details of the land grants were revealed, the Yazoo land sales were repealed in 1796. The three senators bought land by forming companies and tried to pay using old currency.

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