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The “Yazoo Lands” refers to areas on Georgia’s western frontier. After the Revolutionary War, these were lands far from Georgia’s mostly eastern population, and much of it was located in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. In order to protect the settlers that did live there, in 1795 Georgia Governor George Matthews signed the Yazoo Act, giving the government the authority to sell land to private companies at a very discounted price. However, these companies had very close ties to many in Georgia politics, so when they re‑sold the lands at highly inflated prices, many people suspected something illegal was going on. Furious Georgia voters caused many legislators to flee the state. When a new General Assembly met in 1796, the Act was repealed, but 14 years later the Supreme Court ruled that the repeal of the law was unconstitutional. The “Yazoo Land Fraud” — as it became known — finally came to an end in 1814 when the federal government purchased the land.