Definition of Yazoo Companies. Meaning of Yazoo Companies. Synonyms of Yazoo Companies

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word Yazoo Companies. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word Yazoo Companies and, of course, Yazoo Companies synonyms and on the right images related to the word Yazoo Companies.

Definition of Yazoo Companies

Yazoo Companies
Yazoo Fraud Yaz"oo Fraud (U. S. Hist.) The grant by the State of Georgia, by Act of Jan. 7, 1795, of 35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for $500,000, to four companies known as the Yazoo Companies from the region granted; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo Frauds Act, because of alleged corruption of the legislature, every member but one being a shareholder in one or more of the companies. The act granting the land was repealed in 1796 by a new legislature, and the repealing provision was incorporated in the State constitution in 1798. In 1802 the territory was ceded to the United States. The claims of the purchasers, whom Georgia had refused to compensate, were sustained by the United States Supreme Court, which (1810) declared the repealing act of 1796 unconstitutional. Congress in 1814 ordered the lands sold and appropriated $5,000,000 to pay the claims.

Meaning of Yazoo Companies from wikipedia

- The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a m****ive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia...
- Look up Yazoo or yazoo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yazoo may refer to: Yazoo people, a Native American people who lived in Mississippi, United...
- Yazoo City is the county seat of Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States. It was named after the Yazoo River, which, in turn was named by the French...
- Yazoo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the po****tion was 26,743. The county seat is Yazoo City. It...
- Correctional Complex, Yazoo City (FCC Yazoo City) is a United States federal prison complex for male offenders in unincorporated Yazoo County, Mississippi...
- "Don't Go" is a song by British synth-pop band Yazoo (known in the US and Canada as Yaz). It was released in 1982 as the second single from their debut...
- The discography of English synth-pop duo Yazoo consists of two studio albums, one live album, six compilation albums, two extended plays (EPs) and nine...
- synth-pop duo Yazoo. It was written by member Vince Clarke, while he was still with Depeche Mode, but recorded in 1982 after he formed Yazoo with Alison...
- Yazoo Records is an American record label founded in the mid-1960s by Nick Perls. It specializes in early American blues, country, jazz, and other rural...
- Yazoo Brewing Company is a regional brewery in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It was founded in 2003 by brewmaster Linus Hall, and has since expanded...