Compact of 1802

The 'Compact of 1802[1]' was a compact made by U.S. president Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the state of Georgia. In it, the United States paid Georgia 1.25 million U.S. dollars for its central and western lands (the Yazoo lands, now Alabama and Mississippi, respectively), and promised that the U.S. government would extinguish American Indian land titles in Georgia.

References

  1. ↑ "Treaty regarding Georgia's western lands, 1802". Governor's Subject Files, Executive Dept., Governor, RG 1-1-5, Georgia Archives. Retrieved 13 May 2016.

Sources


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 5/14/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.