The UGA US/GA History Exemption Test Questions and Verified Answers | Passed | A+

Iroquois League : Known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse", this is a league of several nations and tribes of indigenous people of North America Yazoo Lands : The sparsely-populated central and western areas of the US state of GA, when its western border stretched to the Mississippi River. James Jackson : October 18, 1819 - January 13, 1887. It was a US representative from GA, a judge advocate during the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. He nullified the yazoo sale and destroyed records connected with the state. Later the Yazoo lands were given to the Federal Government. Yazoo Land Fraud 2 : A massive fraud perpetrated from by several Georgia governers and the state legislature. It involved the selling of unsettled Georgia territory to four large companies and the eventual resale to the US federal government after cries of bribery and corruption led James Jackson to rescind the original sale. James Gunn : Georgia's US senator who arranged the distribution of money and Yazoo land to legislators, state officials, newspaper editors and other influential people.