Compact of 1802

The Compact of 1802 was a compact made by U.S. president Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the state of Georgia. 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 Cherokee land titles in Georgia, and have them removed from that state. This final event, called the Trail of Tears, did not occur until 1838, triggered by the Georgia Gold Rush.

Sources

• The Promised Land:The Cherokees, Arkansas, and Removal, 1794-1839 By Charles Russell Logan