History

Big Nasty

4 April, 23:58

Georgia sold 40,000,000 acres of land for $500,000 to the Georgia Company, the Georgia-Mississippi Company, the Upper Mississippi Company, and the Tennessee Company. · Many Georgia politicians were stockholders in the companies buying the land. · The land was then re-sold for full profit, with massive payoffs to the Georgia politicians involved in the original sale. These statements are all referring to A) the Land Lottery. B) the Yazoo Land Fraud. C) the Teapot Dome Scandal. D) the Pine Barrens Speculation Scandal.