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{{short description|Former territory of the U.S. state of Georgia; now part of Alabama and Mississippi}}
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[[File:Yazoo-Georgia Controversy.png|thumb|Map showing the Yazoo lands as "Disputed until 1802 by Georgia and the United States"]]

The '''Yazoo lands''' were the central and western regions of the [[U.S. state]] of [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], when its western border stretched back to the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]].<ref name=pickett>{{cite book|last=Pickett|first=Albert James|title=History of Alabama and incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from the earliest period|url=https://archive.org/details/historyalabamaa00pickgoog|year=1851|publisher=Walker and James|location=Charleston|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyalabamaa00pickgoog/page/n432 408]–428}}</ref> The Yazoo lands were named for the [[Yazoo people|Yazoo]] nation, that lived on the lower course of the [[Yazoo River|Yazoo]], in what is now [[Mississippi]].

The Yazoo lands would later become large portions of the present-day states of [[Alabama]] and Mississippi, along with portions of [[Spanish West Florida]], which became the lower third of each state, and a narrow northern strip of land claimed by [[South Carolina]] in the [[Treaty of Beaufort]] that also stretched westward to the river, which became the two states' border counties with [[Tennessee]].<ref name=pickett/>

In the 1790s, the Yazoo lands were the subject of a major political [[scandal]] 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]].<ref name=pickett/><ref>{{cite web|title=The Pine Barrens Speculation and Yazoo Land Fraud|url=http://www.aboutnorthgeorgia.com/ang/The_Pine_Barrens_Speculation_and_Yazoo_Land_Fraud|publisher=About North Georgia|access-date=July 27, 2013|archive-date=November 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103193838/http://www.aboutnorthgeorgia.com/ang/The_Pine_Barrens_Speculation_and_Yazoo_Land_Fraud|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Historic regions of the United States]]
* [[Mississippi Territory]]

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[[Category:Former regions and territories of the United States]]
[[Category:Pre-statehood history of Alabama]]
[[Category:History of Georgia (U.S. state)]]
[[Category:Pre-statehood history of Mississippi]]
[[Category:Cultural regions of the United States]]
[[Category:Lands inhabited by indigenous peoples]]


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