Yazoo War

The Yazoo War was a popular revolt in the early United States (US) centered in Georgia. It began as a result of the Yazoo Land Fraud scandal in 1795, angering the peasantry and other impoverished White Georgians, eventually escalating into a slave result when thousands of slaves sided with the rebels against wealthy plantation owners in the state. It also became a symbol of Cherokee and Creek opposition to Indian Removal when the Cherokee Nation and the State of Muskogee joined the rebellion. The Yazoo War ended in 1802 when the United States Army defeated the Yazoo rebels at the Second Siege of Savannah.