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Morrill Land-Grant Acts

Not to be confused with...

  • Morrill Tariff Act
  • Second Morrill Act of 1890
  • Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act

By: Ashley Drake, Kelly Hartigan, Gabbie Jones

Western Settlement

This act helped new Western states and territories build colleges to gain a more educated populace and also paved the way for new technologies making western development better

Thank you!

Pros and Cons

Pros: Helped developed the land and helped those going to college

Cons: Hurt whoever previously owned the land that the new colleges would build on

Primary Source 2

There was a number of debates in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

There are copies of the records of this bill being discussed here:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query

What It's About

Primary Source 3

The document stated that states would get a certain amount of land to build colleges, and in return, the government would get the profit of the land.

The transcript of the document can be found here:

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=33&page=transcript

Allowed for the creation of colleges with the use of land grants. 30,000 acres were given to states per congressional seat and colleges were meant to focus on agriculture and mechanics.

Primary Source 1

Pass this measure and we shall have done:

Something to enable the farmer to raise two blades of grass instead of one;

Something for every owner of land;

Something for all who desire to own land;

Something for cheap scientific education;

Something for every man who loves intelligence and not ignorance;

Something to induce the father's sons and daughters to settle and duster around the old homesteads;

Something to remove the last vestige of pauperism from our land;

Something to obtain higher prices for all sorts of agricultural productions; and

Something to increase the loveliness of the American landscape.

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