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Yazoo lands
Former territory of the U.S. state of Georgia; now part of Alabama and Mississippi / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Yazoo lands were the central and western regions of the U.S. state of Georgia, when its western border stretched back to the Mississippi.[1] The Yazoo lands were named for the Yazoo nation, that lived on the lower course of the Yazoo, in what is now Mississippi.
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The Yazoo lands would later become large portions of the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi, along with portions of Spanish West Florida, which became the lower third of each state, and a narrow northern strip of land claimed by South Carolina in the Treaty of Beaufort that also stretched westward to the river, which became the two states' border counties with Tennessee.[1]
In the 1790s, the Yazoo lands were the subject of a major political scandal in the state of Georgia, called the Yazoo land scandal. It led to Georgia's cession of the land to the U.S. government in the Compact of 1802.[1][2]