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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Yazoo Land Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post-Revolutionary history of Georgia.
		To prevent those claiming lands under the Yazoo purchase from receiving a sympathetic hearing in a Congress dominated by Federalists, Jackson and his lieutenants blocked any cession of the western territory until the Republicans were in control.
		Then in 1802, commissioners from Georgia, including Jackson, transferred the land and the Yazoo claims to the federal government: the United States paid Georgia $1.25 million and agreed to extinguish as quickly as possible the remaining claims of Native Americans to areas within the state.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-663 (828 words)

	Yazoo Land Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		YAZOO LAND FRAUD: In 1765 the western boundary of Georgia was set in the middle of the Mississippi River.
		The Pine Barrens and the Yazoo Land Fraud - courtesy of ngeorgia.
		Due to wholesale bribery the Yazoo Land Act (fraud) was passed by the Georgia legislators in 1795.
	www.pictureprobe.com /fraud/yazoo-land-fraud.html (309 words)

	Yazoo land fraud - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		YAZOO LAND FRAUD [Yazoo land fraud] name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Georgia legislature of vast holdings in the Yazoo River country to four land companies following the wholesale bribery of the legislators; the territory comprised most of present Alabama and Mississippi.
		The Yazoo frauds came to be a vexing issue in national politics.
		Peck, held that their land claims were valid since the Yazoo act of 1795 constituted a contract binding on Georgia even though it was conceived in fraud.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-yazoolan.html (471 words)

	James Jackson (1757-1806)
		He made his most important contributions to his adopted state in the political arena, overturning the Yazoo land fraud of 1795 and building the state's first true political party.
		After being elected governor in 1798 Jackson saw to it that the substance of the Rescinding Act of 1796 was engrafted onto a revised state constitution.
		Jackson's appreciation of the land hunger endemic to Georgians and his willingness to put his life and reputation on the line to control it made him the "colossus" of Georgia politics.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/ArticlePrintable.jsp?id=h-1087 (646 words)

	Tennessee
		She ceded her rights to her Western Lands in 1790, and in the same year, the United States Congress created the Territory of the US South of the River Ohio, or as it was more commonly know, the Southwest Territory.
		In the early 1790’s lands "rich in hickory and oak with streams..." were sold to investors caught up in the intense land speculation fever sweeping the country.
		Judicial Activism, the Eleventh Amendment, and the Yazoo Land Fraud.
	members.tripod.com /cornelius_carroll/id28.htm (4527 words)

	Fletcher v. Peck
		In 1789, Georgia sold much of this land (known as the Yazoo because of the presence of a river by that name in the area) to speculators, but the attempt to settle this land failed due in part to the presence of the people of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw tribes.
		The lands in controversy vested absolutely in James Gunn and others, the original grantees, by the conveyance of the governor, made in pursuance of an act of assembly to which the legislature was fully competent.
		An additional problem facing the Yazoo land owners was that because the land was in Mississippi Territory, an ejectment action could be tried there, but under the Judiciary Act of 1789, no appeal could be taken from a judgment of a territorial court.
	www.michaelariens.com /ConLaw/cases/fletcher.htm (2580 words)

	Fletcher v. Peck
		The Yazoo land, named after a major river running through it, was sold at bargain rates (less than two cents per acre).
		In the interim, however, much of the land had been sold one or two times, and the new property owners—many of whom had paid as much as sixteen cents per acre—now claimed they were innocent victims of the Georgia legislature's repeal.
		But proponents of the repeal claimed that the subsequent purchasers had known about the circumstances of the fraud (the story was reported throughout the nation) and thus could not claim to be innocent purchasers.
	www.americanforeignrelations.com /En-Fl/Fletcher-v-Peck.html (679 words)

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	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Yazoo (293 words)

	North Georgia Land - Yazoo Land Fraud
		The Pine Barrens Speculation and Yazoo Land Fraud
		The Yazoo Land Fraud began in 1785 with the organization of the Combined Society and the creation of Bourbon County Georgia.
		It was not the end of the effects of the Yazoo Land Fraud.
	ngeorgia.com /history/land.html (963 words)

	1805 Georgia Land Lottery
		Each entry in the 1805 Land Lottery, records the Name (surname and given name), registrant's serial number, the results of registrant's draw or draws (indicated by letters "P" and "B", to show whether a prize or a blank was drawn), and the county of residence.
		Land and property records, combined with tax records, are one of the keys to successful family history
		Land in the Pike County area was distributed through lotteries.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/JKnoblock/land.htm (339 words)

	1794 Yazoo Land Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Four Yazoo companies, the Georgia Company, the Georgia-Mississippi Company (formerly the South Carolina Yazoo Company), the Upper Mississippi Company (formerly the Virginia Yazoo Company), and the Tennessee Company pushed through a bid of $500,000 for 35,000,000 acres in present-day Alabama and Mississippi.
		Jackson succeeded in blocking the cession of the western territories to the United States until the Republicans were in control of the federal government; after Thomas Jefferson's election to the presidency in 1802 Georgia commissioners, including Jackson, transferred the western territory and Yazoo claims to the federal government for $1.25 million.
		The records on the Yazoo Land Fraud are from Record Group 003-01-069, Surveyor General, General Administrative Records, Yazoo Land Fraud Records.
	www.sos.state.ga.us /archives/what_do_we_have/online_records/historic_documents/1794_yazoo_land_fraud/default.htm (679 words)

	Yazoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yazoo lands, historic area in Mississippi and Alabama
		Yazoo (drink), a flavoured milk drink made by Campina
		Yazoo tribe, a Native American peoples who lived in Mississippi
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yazoo (118 words)

	Yazoo Land Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Land is deeded to The Georgia Company, The Georgia-Mississippi Company, The Tennessee Company and the Upper Mississippi Company under the corrupt Yazoo Act.
		During the Yazoo Land Fraud, James Gunn, Mathew M'Allister, George Walker, Zachariah Cox, Jacob Walburger, William Longstreet and Wade Hampton, by deed, convey a portion of the Georgia Company's land to James Greenleaf.
		Georgia cedes the land involved in the Yazoo Land Fraud (and the associated legal problems) to the United States.
	www.ourgeorgiahistory.com /chronpop/3129 (579 words)

	economics
		Land, so in 1802 an agreement was worked out between the state of Georgia and the U.S. government.
		This agreement stated that Georgia would cede to the U.S. its land west of the Chattahoochee in exchange for $1.25 million and removal of the Indians remaining in the boundaries of Georgia.
		Following the Yazoo Land Fraud, during what is now called the Antebellum Era (meaning "before the war"), landowners enjoyed the benefits of Georgia’s economy.
	www.gavoyager.com /economics.html (526 words)

	Yazoo Land Fraud MS Local History Network
		On September 16, O’Fallon completed the organization of the “Yazoo Battalion”, with which a regular contract was made by him in behalf of the Carolina Company, the troops to be paid by grants of land.
		At this time the Cherokees were gathering at their “greatly beloved town, Estanloee,” on the waters of mobile, to deliberate on the treaty offered by Governor Blount, of the Territory South, and the request that they aid the United States in the war with the Northern Indians.
		When Georgia ceded the western lands, the South Carolina and Virginia companies claimed indemnification for a violation of contract on the part of Georgia, attempting to prove by collateral evidence that it was the intention of the legislature that they pay in State certificates of debt.
	www.rootsweb.com /~msalhn/yazoolandfraud.html (1350 words)

	Gangs of New York? Gangs of Georgia! The Yazoo Land Fraud: Political Corruption & Scandal in Early Georgia History
		This was soon to be over-shadowed on a national level by the Yazoo Land Fraud.
		[Map] This land was known as the Yazoo because of the presence of a river by that name in the area.
		In 1789, Georgia sold much of this land to speculators, but the attempt to settle this land failed due in part to the presence of several Native American tribes, the Cherokee, the Creek, the Choctaw, and the Chickasaw.
	gahistory.i-found-it.net /yazoolandfraud.html (774 words)

	SMARC: Land Records
		In order to conduct a thorough research of your ancestor's land records, there must be an understanding of how ownership was acquired in each state as well as the overall historical changes in land acquisition.
		If a husband and wife sold land during their marriage and she assigned her rights of dower within that deed, then often somone from her family would witness that deed in order to show that she was not giving away her dower rights under duress.
		The Pine Barrens and the Yazoo Land Fraud -
	www.ancestraldesigns.com /smarc/land.htm (1210 words)

	Can Flawed Be Fraud
		This presumption of power is at the center ideology of imperialism and colonialism and legitimated the appropriation of land, resources, and cultures under the auspices of spreading civilization to uncivilized countries.
		White man thinks he can stick a flag up anywhere and say, "This land is mine." The Europeans feared the large number of "Native Americans" would be difficult to subjugate by force because it would be too costly and the outcome would be uncertain.
		To this discovery the English trace their title." But in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 the King states that the land was "reserved to the said Indians" which shows good Indian title to the soil.
	cca2000.4t.com /fraud.htm (1820 words)

	Trail of Tears State Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Governor George Mathews managed to award over two and half million acres of the state of Georgia; an impressive enough feat in its own right except that all two and half million of those acres were in a county less than a half million acres total.
		European settlers were encroaching on Cherokee lands in ever increasing numbers and in 1831 the Cherokee went to the U.S. Supreme Court with a case that pleaded for the state of Georgia to recognize their sovereignty.
		The document was a fraud, a fact the Cherokee nation made very clear upon its presentation, but in 1836, supported by "presidential" lies, it was ratified.
	users.stlcc.edu /jangert/trail/tears.html (1598 words)

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		Yazoo land fraud, name given to the sale in 1795 by an act of the Georgia legislature of vast...
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	National Park Service - Founders and Frontiersmen (Historical Background) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the next decade, despite speculators, legal confusion resulting from the Yazoo land fraud of 1795, and economic unrest created by the Whisky Tax of 1791, settlers moved into the Yazoo strip.
		In 1798, recognizing the hopelessness of the situation, Spain abandoned her Yazoo strip forts, and the same year the region became a part of the newly created Mississippi Territory, which Congress extended in 1802 to include all of present Alabama and Mississippi.
		On the other side were the settlers' chronic indebtedness and lack of hard cash and the belief expressed by many that the squatters and pioneer farmers were doing a national service by clearing the land and extending the area of civilization and thus deserved to own their land for their labor.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/founders/intro20.htm (1579 words)

	GeorgiaInfo - Carl Vinson Institute of Government
		If they could be persuaded to leave, then whites could settle the large expanse of land, greatly increasing Georgia's population, and bringing profit to those who sold the land.
		Land speculators had formed companies and started trying to buy some of this land as early as 1789.
		Naturally the people who had purchased land under the act did not want to give up their claims, so they took the matter to court, and the case eventually reached the United States Supreme Court.
	www.cviog.uga.edu /Projects/gainfo/yazoolandfraud.htm (335 words)

	Scandals & Fraud
		Thomas J. Rigas (49), son and former CFO was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his part in the fraud.
		May 25, 2006 - Ken Lay, former Chairman and CEO of Enron, was convicted on six counts of fraud and conspiracy, four counts of bank fraud, free on $5 million bond while awaiting sentencing in September; July 5, 2006 - died of a heart attack (after being convicted, before sentencing).
		Fraud Inc. http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/corruption/ A great place to track developments related to corporate crime.
	www.kipnotes.com /ScandalsFraud.htm (5152 words)

	Fraud Museum - Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
		The early pioneers of fraud set the stage for money laundering, forgery, false accounting and investment scams.
		The ACFE Fraud Museum brings historic frauds to life, from the most famous to the most obscure.
		In 1794, four companies were formed to bribe the Georgia Assembly so it would sell them 20 million acres of land for the sum of $500,000, less than three cents per acre.
	www.acfe.com /about/museum.asp (297 words)

	Georgia on the cutting edge of Indian Removal
		This land was known as the Yazoo because of the presence of a river by that name in the area.
		As a result of the Yazoo land fraud scandal, the land distribution laws were changed to a lottery system.
		To compensate the Cherokee for their loss without retaining some land and living a normal life among the settlers, Ross came up with the figure of 20 million dollars, or about 25% of the value of the land if sold separately to each settler.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~mgagnon/students/Daniel.htm (2707 words)

	Fraud Alert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fraud Alert from the Department of Financial Institutions.
		Fraud - Wireless POS Devices, September 17, 2004.
		If you think putting a fraud alert on your credit report will stop an identity thief, think again.
	www.pictureprobe.com /fraud/fraud-alert.html (185 words)

	Free Essay Fletcher vs. Peck Case Description and Analysis
		Peck and the “Yazoo Land Fraud.” In essence, the decision determined that i...
		In the case of Fletcher vs. Peck, the Yazoo land grants were on trial.
		The whole land grant process had been corrupt, so the Georgian legislature had the right to take them away, but Marshall believed there was something more to this case.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=26385 (631 words)

	Westward Expansion -- The Yazoo Fraud
		Have students identify the current states that would have had land involved in the Yazoo Grants.
		After giving students the background to the Yazoo Act, have students complete the worksheet, "The Yazoo Land Fraud," to identify the major people and events involved.
		Distribute "Newspaper Headlines of the Yazoo Land Fraud" worksheet and have students write a series of newspaper headlines describing major people and events relating to the Yazoo Act.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/LPTools/lpshared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=2175 (375 words)

	North Carolina, NC, canoeing, kayaking, and tubing on the French Broad River - Headwaters Outfitters
		The State of Georgia ceded disputed land in the Yazoo Land Fraud along with the associated problems to the United States on 26 April 1802 for $1,250,000 and removal of the Cherokees from Georgia at Federal expense.
		He was a fierce warrior, pockmarked by smallpox when a young child, tall and stately in appearance, and the primary leading force in the Cherokee's resistance to white settlement on Cherokee lands.
		He strongly resisted the sale of Cherokee lands to whites and spoke at treaty negotiations vehemently objecting to the continued sale of Cherokee land.
	www.headwatersoutfitters.com /history.htm (1045 words)

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