Georgia Cession of western lands to the United States

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The Georgia Cession of western lands to the United States was the 1802 agreement in which Georgia surrendered its vast western territorial claims (in present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to the federal government, helping resolve boundary disputes and scandals like the Yazoo land fraud.

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Yazoo land controversy resolution significantEvent Georgia Cession of western lands to the United States
Yazoo land controversy resolution legalBasis Georgia Cession of western lands to the United States
this entity surface form: Georgia Cession Act of 1802