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What is the Yazoo land fraud?
It was when governors sold Yazoo land and kept the profits.
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What is the amount of acres sold?
35 to 50 million.
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What year did this take place?
1795
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What did the legislatures do when they found out they were bribed.
They fled the state.
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What states did it take place?
Alabama and Mississippi
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Why were the georgia people outraged?
because they had to buy the land for a lot more money?
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How much was one acre?
One dollar and fifty cents
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When did the government get involved?
1814
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What did many state leader want to do with the land?
They wanted to make it a settlement for the whites.
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