compact, 1802, formally, articles, agreement, cession, compact, between, united, states, america, state, georgia, entered, into, april, 1802, united, states, paid, georgia, million, dollars, central, western, lands, yazoo, lands, alabama, mississippi, respecti. The Compact of 1802 formally Articles of Agreement and Cession was a compact between the United States of America and the state of Georgia entered into on April 24 1802 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 1 This was the last of the post colonial land cessions by the original states References Edit 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 EditThe Promised Land The Cherokees Arkansas and Removal 1794 1839 By Charles Russell Logan This article related to the state of Georgia is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Compact of 1802 amp oldid 971961725, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
