Question

Until 1802, the western boundary of georgia was the mississippi river. what caused georgia to give up its land claims in present-day mississippi and alabama?

Answer 1

i believe that the answer is the yazzo land fraud

Answer 2

There was a fraud in which large parts of land were sold to people for practically nothing, and these people made a lot of money buy reselling it. When the fraud was discovered, the sales were overturned and there were many claims about the land. Georgia didn't want to deal with that so they decided to give all those parts of the state to the federal government.