- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Yazoo Act Burning
- Publisher:
- New York: American Book Co.
- Date of Original:
- 1908
- Subject:
- Legislators--Georgia
Fires--Georgia
Men--Georgia
Politicians--Georgia
Legal documents--Georgia
Legal documents--Destruction and reconstruction--Georgia
Fraud--Georgia
Jackson, James, 1757-1806
Yazoo Fraud, 1795 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- drawings (visual works)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The burning of the Yazoo Act, which resulted in the Yazoo land fraud of 1795, took place on the grounds of the capitol building in Louisville. Louisville served as the state capital from 1796 until 1806, when the legislature moved to Milledgeville.
Image of a drawing depicting James Jackson, a U.S. senator from Georgia, destroying records connected with the Yazoo land fraud in 1796, after the passage of the Yazoo Rescinding Act. Jackson drops several documents into a small fire. He is surrounded by a group of men observing the records' destruction.
Josiah Tattnall Sr., a state representative, helped Jackson secure the votes necessary in the legislature to pass the act. The Yazoo land fraud was one of the most significant events in the post-Revolutionary history of Georgia. The bizarre climax to a decade of frenzied speculation in the state's public lands, the Yazoo sale of 1795 did much to shape Georgia politics and to strain relations with the federal government for a generation.
Reproduced from: Evans, Lawton B. A History of Georgia for Use in Schools. New York: American Book Co., 1908. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/fletcher-v-peck-1810/m-8201/
- Rights Holder:
- From A History of Georgia for Use in Schools, by L. B. Evans
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/land-lottery-system
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/georgias-historic-capitals
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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