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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 Mississippi. The Yazoo lands would later...
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    Assembly. Georgia politicians sold large tracts of territory in the Yazoo lands, in what are now portions of the present-day states of Alabama and Mississippi...
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    32°20′8″N 90°53′50″W / 32.33556°N 90.89722°W / 32.33556; -90.89722 The Yazoo River is a river in the U.S. states of Louisiana and Mississippi. It is...
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  • Campina Yazoo Clay, a geologic formation in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Yazoo County, Mississippi Yazoo City, Mississippi Yazoo lands, a historic...
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  • Paris ending the American Revolution, Georgia claimed possession of the Yazoo lands, a 54,000 sq mi (140,000 km2) region of the Indian Reserve, west of its...
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    the Yazoo lands, what is now the lower one-third of Alabama was made part of the Mississippi Territory when it was organized in 1798. The Yazoo lands were...
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  • county was created by Georgia in 1785 as part of the Yazoo land scandal out of disputed Yazoo lands in present-day Mississippi and was dissolved in 1788...
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    State of South Carolina, 1787 State of Georgia, 1802 (sold the disputed Yazoo lands to the U.S. Federal government) U.S. territory with land that would later...
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  • (Wendake) Lenapehoking Yazoo lands In the early 18th century, the Comanche expanded out of present-day Wyoming into the lands that then became known as...
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    (from 31° N to 35° N), until it surrendered its claim in 1802 following the Yazoo land scandal. In 1804, Congress extended the boundaries of the Mississippi...
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