Plz help The Yazoo Land Act was passed by the Georgia legislature to encourage settlement in lands west of where most people lived. Tt resulted, though, in a massive scandal
Choose the items that CORRECTLY describe the scandal known as the Yazoo Land Fraud.
The Yazoo Land Act was passed during the Civil War.
The Act organized the sale of lands in areas that would become Alabama and Mississippi.
Georgians were angered by the sale because most of the land was purchased by foreign investors.
The US government eventually purchased the land affected by the Yazoo Act.
As part of the settlement that ended the scandal, Creek Indians were to be removed from Georgia