How was land distributed among Georgia residents after the Yazoo land fraud?
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Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the biggest events in the history of Georgian era of post-revolutionary war.
With time, it was difficult for the then government on Georgia to with their increasing land claims.
So, they introduced a land lottery system to appoint land to the citizens of Georgia and that’s how the land got distributed.
Yazoo Land Fraud was one of the biggest events in the history of Georgian era of post-revolutionary war. With time, it was difficult for the then Georgian government to counter residents increasing land claims. So, they introduced a land lottery system to allocate land to the citizens of Georgia and that’s how the land got distributed
EXPLANATION:
Yazoo Land Fraud was an enormous real-estate fraud perpetrated in the mid-1790s by the Georgian Governor and the Georgia General Assembly, where vast tracts of Yazoo lands were sold to the US government at very low prices owing to the Compact of 1802 (where the US paid Georgia USD 1.25 million for its western and central lands in the Yazoo lands, presently Mississippi and Alabama respectively), and in return the US government assured Georgia they would extinguish American Indian land titles in Georgia.
After this incident, Georgia shifted to the lottery system and almost 3/4th of the land was distributed under this lottery system. At the time these lands were distributed under this system, the methods and rules of the lottery remained unchanged. Applicants were white men over 18, widows, or orphans.
Fees was contingent on the lottery and the size of the lot won; however, mostly it only included the cost of running the lottery. The state did not gain from apportioning these lands. Fractional lots were sold in each of the lotteries and certain lands, particularly those near major rivers, were exempted from this lottery system. The state distributed these lands by adopting alternate, often corrupt, methods.