The Yazoo lands were the central and western regions of the U.S. state of

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, when its western border stretched back to the

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. The Yazoo lands were named for the Yazoo nation, that lived on the lower course of the Yazoo, in what is now

. The Yazoo lands would later become large portions of the present-day states of

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and Mississippi, with the exclusion of Spanish West Florida, which became the lower third of each state, and a narrow northern strip of land claimed by

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in the

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that also stretched westward to the river, which became the two states' border counties with

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. In the 1790s, the Yazoo lands were the subject of a major political

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in the state of Georgia, called the Yazoo land scandal. It led to Georgia's cession of the land to the U.S. government in the

Compact of 1802 The Compact of 1802, formally ''Articles of Agreement and Cession'', was a compact between the United States of America and the state of Georgia entered into on April 24, 1802. In it, the United States paid Georgia 1.25 million U.S. dollars for its ...

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