Which event was a major land scandal in 1795 involving Georgia legislators accepting bribes to sell large tracts of land at extremely low prices?

• A. Headright System
• B. Yazoo Land Fraud
• C. Land Lottery
• D. Cotton Gin

Answer: (B)

This is about a landmark case of government corruption over land sales. In 1795, Georgia legislators took bribes from land companies to approve sales of huge tracts in the Yazoo territory at extremely low prices. That means powerful insiders sold government land to speculators for a fraction of its value, which betrayed the public trust and taxpayers. The uproar over these deals led to their repeal and helped shape Georgia’s approach to land distribution, illustrating how political corruption can distort land policy and government action. Other options describe different land systems or inventions unrelated to this bribery-driven scandal—the Headright System granted land to settlers in another era, the Land Lottery was a separate method of distributing land, and the Cotton Gin is a device that transformed cotton production, not land sales abuses.