What were citizens upset about in the Yazoo Land Fraud? A. Legislators made deals to benefit themselves instead of the citizens they were supposed to represent. B. Legislators made deals to benefit the U.S. government instead of the citizens they were supposed to represent. C. instead of distributing land, legislators kept most of the land for themselves. D. Legislators refused to cooperate with land speculators and developers.
History · High School · Mon Jan 18 2021
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A. Legislators made deals to benefit themselves instead of the citizens they were supposed to represent.
In the Yazoo Land Fraud, citizens were upset because legislators were involved in corrupt deals that favored private land companies over the interests of the citizens they were elected to represent. The legislators were accused of selling large tracts of public land in the Yazoo territory (in what is now Alabama and Mississippi) to private companies at extremely low prices. This led to public outrage as it was perceived as a betrayal of the public trust and a misuse of government power for personal gain.