2) Why was the pictured land settlement from the Yazoo Act of 1795 known as a controversial fraud scandal?
A
Land survey companies were paid by white settlers to
deny land ownership to freed slaves in the region.
B)
In order to gain the territory. Native Americans were
forced off their land and resettled west of the
Mississippi River
c
A lottery system that denied participation from poor
white settlers was installed to provide land
ownership to only the elite
D
Four land companies offered Georgia's governor and
members of the Georgia National Assembly shares in
their company to sell them 40.000.000 acres for
$500.000