someone PLEASE explain these to me... I do not understand any of it!!!?

Question

okay... I have read and re-read and looked up, and I still do not understand... will you help me?

Yazoo Land Fraud
Removal of Native Americans from Ga

I need to tie these two items together... but I don't know how!!! please help!!! I do not understand how they are connected!!!

Answer 1

This is the first that I heard of these two issues, so I refer you to the links listed below. From these articles, I learned that the Pine Barrens Speculation and Yazoo Land Fraud were similar to the modern Enron debacle in which the investments (non-existent land for Pine Barrens, overinflated land values for Yazoo, and virtual holdings for Enron), were unreal. They did not exist or were overstated for the sake of profits. They were balloons waiting to burst, or accidents waiting to happen.

On the website "Our Georgia History", I found the following:
"April 26, 1802 ---Georgia cedes the land involved in the Yazoo Land Fraud (and the associated legal problems) to the United States. In exchange the state receives 1.25 million dollars and the promise of removal of the Cherokee Indians from the present-day boundaries of the state. President Thomas Jefferson announces the cession of Yazoo Act lands to the U. S. government"

Basically, corrupt politicians and special interests got too greedy, the deal backfired, the land was given to the US government, and the Cherokees were cheated out of their lands.

On Wikipedia, "Yazoo" is said to be of Native American origin, meaning "River of Death".

Answer 2

Georgians felt defrauded out of their land by the Yazoo Land Fraud and the Fed Govt was trying to settle the disputes arising from it, but at the same time, the Indians were claiming lands in Georgia as their own. The US Govt's answer to this was to relocate the indians out of the state altogether, to Oklahoma.

I've just done a real skimpy study of this and it may not be entirely accurate what I said, but here are references for you., Good luck.

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2722
and
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-663

Answer 3

uh.........sorry. I'm bad with American history.