1=In 1618, the headright system was introduced as a means to solve the labor shortage. It provided the following: Colonists already residing in Virginia were granted two headrights, meaning two tracts of 50 acres each, or a total of 100 acres of land.
2=Yazoo Land Fraud. In 1795 one of Georgia's worst political scandals took place - the Yazoo Land Fraud. At that time,Georgia's legal boundary extended west to the Mississippi River. Many state leaders wanted to open this area to settlement, but Creeks, Cherokees, and other Native Americans lived there.
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