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What were citizens upset about in the Yazoo Land Fraud?
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Legislators made deals to benefit themselves instead of the citizens they were supposed to represent.

Legislators refused to cooperate with land speculators and developers.

Instead of distributing land, legislators kept most of the land for themselves.

Legislators made deals to benefit the U.S. government instead of the citizens they were supposed to represent.

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Answer:

Legislators made deals to benefit the U.S. government instead of the citizens they were supposed to represent.

Explanation:

The Yazoo land scandal, Yazoo fraud, Yazoo land fraud, or Yazoo land controversy was a massive real-estate fraud perpetrated, in the mid-1790s, by Georgia governor George Mathews and the Georgia General Assembly. Georgia politicians sold large tracts of territory in the Yazoo lands, in what are now portions of the present-day states Alabama and Mississippi, to political insiders at very low prices in 1794.

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