January 12, 1798: James Jackson Elected Governor
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Suggested Readings
William Omer Foster Sr., James Jackson, Duelist and Militant Georgia Statesman, 1757-1806
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1960).
George R. Lamplugh, "'Oh the Colossus, the Colossus': James Jackson and the Jeffersonian
Republican Party in Georgia, 1796-1806," Journal of the Early Republic 9 (1989).
George R. Lamplugh , Politics on the Periphery: Factions and Parties in Georgia, 1783-1806
(Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986).
Buddy Sullivan, Georgia a State History (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2003). See Chapter 5
Georgia History Festival Honoree, Georgia Historical
Society. http://georgiahistory.com/containers/299
Biographical Directory of the United States
Congress: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000017
“Yazoo Land Fraud.” New Georgia
Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-663&sug=y
“Treaty regarding Georgia's western lands,
1802.” http://cdm.sos.state.ga.us/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/adhoc&CISOPTR=420&CISOSHOW
=412
James Jackson Papers, Georgia Historical
Society http://69.63.217.9/G92002Staff/OPAC/TitleView/CompleteDisplay.aspx?FromOPAC=true&DbCo
de=0&PatronCode=0&Language=english&RwSearchCode=0&WordHits=&BibCodes=5029392
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January 12, 1798: James Jackson
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“Extract from an Act, entitled to amend and alter some parts, and repeal other parts, of the
several Land Acts in this State”
Yazoo Land Records, MS 888
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
“An Act for an amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia, and authorizing the
establishment of a Government in the Mississippi territory”, March 5, 1798
Yazoo Land Records, MS 888
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
Alexander Hamilton
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-17523
Alexander Hamilton
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-03160
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Burning of the Yazoo Act, James Jackson on left with magnifying glass in his hand, MS 1675
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
James Jackson
Georgia Historical Society Print Collection, 1361PR box 4 folder 5
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
James Jackson, c 1850
Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-94984
James Jackson's Dueling Pistols, Artifact Collection, A-1361-533
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
Liberty Bell and Stairway, Independence Hall
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection,
LC-D4-18507
Original State House of Georgia in Augusta 1873, torn down
Courtesy of the Joseph M. Lee III Collection, Augusta Museum of History
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Philadelphia State House, 1778
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-9486
Report of the Subcommittee on the treasury
Yazoo Land Records, MS 888
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
The First Federal Congress 1789
Courtesy of Architect of the Capitol
Thomas Jefferson
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection,
LC-DIG-det-4a31444
Thomas Jefferson
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-31158
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Thomas Jefferson
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-75384
The State House in Philadelphia, 1776
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-17704
View of the federal edifice in New York
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-45577
Yazoo Bill List 1
James Jackson Papers, MS 422
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
Yazoo Bill List 2
James Jackson Papers, MS 422
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
Yazoo Land Map, A History of Georgia for Use in Schools, Main Collection, F286 .E9 1908
Courtesy of the Georgia Historical Society
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