Georgia Cession of western lands to the United States

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The Georgia Cession of western lands to the United States was the 1802 agreement in which Georgia surrendered its vast western territorial claims (in present-day Alabama and Mississippi) to the federal government, helping resolve boundary disputes and scandals like the Yazoo land fraud.

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Label	Occurrences
Georgia Cession Act of 1802	1
Georgia Cession of western lands to the United States canonical	1

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Yazoo land controversy resolution → significantEvent → Georgia Cession of western lands to the United States ⓘ

Yazoo land controversy resolution → legalBasis → Georgia Cession of western lands to the United States ⓘ

this entity surface form: Georgia Cession Act of 1802