After hearing about the bribery, Georgia's leading U.S. senator James Jackson resigned his seat and returned home to overturn the sale. After holding court cases that discovered the corruption charges, Jackson wrote the 1796 Rescinding Act, which cancelled the Yazoo land sale.
Jackson arranged for the destruction of records connected with the sale. Jackson made sure that state officials guilty of bribery were denied reelection. Jackson changed the state constitution to make sure the land sale was cancelled forever.
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