1862 law in which the federal government distributed millions of acres of western lands to the state governments in order to fund state agricultural colleges
What is Morrill Act?
100
This President signed the Morrill Act of 1862 into law on July 2.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
After the Morrill Act of 1862, each state received -this- for each Senator and Representative.
What is 30,000 acres public land?
100
This Yale-educated farmer, newspaper editor, and college professor's “Plan for a State University for the Industrial Classes” advanced ideas that are now fundamental to the land-grant system, such as experimental research in agriculture.
Who is Jonathan Baldwin Turner?
100
This is a research, policy, and advocacy organization representing 236 public research universities, land-grant institutions, state university systems, and affiliated organizations.
What is APLU (American Public and Land-Grant Universities?)
200
The Morrill Act of 1862 was also known as -this-
What is the Land Grant College Act?
200
These are the main areas that were envisioned to grow with the Morrill Act.
What are agriculture and mechanical education?
200
The land was to be sold and money from the sale was to be put -here- which would provide financial support for the colleges in each of the states.
What are endowment funds?
200
This representative and later a senator from Vermont sponsored the land-grant legislation that bears his name and is generally credited as having secured its passage.
Who is Justin Smith Morrill?
200
There are -this many- land-grant institutions in US today.
What is 76?
300
Twenty-eight years after the passage of the Morrill Act of 1862, Congress enacted a second Morrill Act establishing Black land-grant universities. The legislation gave states funds to establish state universities for persons of color if race was an admissions factor at the existing state university.
What is 1890 Universities?
300
The first state to accept the terms of the Morrill Act which provided the funding boost needed for the fledgling "State Agricultural College and Model Farm"
What is Iowa?
(eventually renamed Iowa State University of Science and Technology)
300
The Morrill Act was first proposed in 1857, and was passed by Congress in 1859, but it was vetoed this President.
Who is James Buchanan
300
This is institution is one of the few exceptions to the public land-grant institutions in MA?
What is MIT?
400
These are the two states which received provision for separate but equal facilities through the Morrill Act of 1862?
What are Mississippi and Kentucky?
400
This 1887 Act authorized direct payment of federal grant funds to each state to establish an agricultural experiment station in connection with the land-grant institution there.
What is the Hatch Act?
400
This artist's song "Cry me a river" has a very agricultural theme...
Who is Justin Timberlake?
400
Land-grant institutions, designed to foster a program of education suited to the needs of the agricultural and industrial classes, came to encompass a program of these 3 areas.
What are on-campus instruction, research, and off-campus extension work?
500
This 1914 act created a Cooperative Extension Service associated with each land- grant institution.