Question

Which of the following describes the relationship between the “headright” system and the Yazoo land fraud? A The headright system was adopted after the Yazoo land fraud. B The headright system was used to distribute land acquired in the Yazoo land fraud. C The Yazoo land fraud took back lands which had been distributed under the headright system. D The Yazoo land fraud sold lands Georgia struggled to distribute after the failure of the headright system.

Answer 1

The correct answer is D) The Yazoo land fraud sold lands Georgia struggled to distribute after the failure of the headright system.

The statement that describes the relationship between the “headright” system and the Yazoo land fraud is "The Yazoo land fraud sold lands Georgia struggled to distribute after the failure of the headright system."

The headright system in the state of Georgia provided a portion of land to every white man, head of a family. The system gave 200 acres of land and for every member of the family and slaves, 50 more. The system aimed to invite more people to inhabit the state. After so many problems with this distribution of land, in 1795, the state's governor George Mattews signed into law a controversial bill that allowed the government to sell land to speculators, That was the Yazoo Land Fraud. the Governor gave speculators almost 40 million acres of land. Many public officials and politicians in Georgia were accused of fraud. Many people took their case to the Supreme Court. In the end, the Yazoo territory was divided to form the states of Mississippi and Alabama.

Answer 2

The correct answer is letter D.

Explanation: Several Georgia legislators were bribed into selling some of the state's western lands for pennies an acre.

Georgia lost money as well as lands west of the Chattahoochee River.