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		The first Morrill Act provided grants in the form of federal lands to each state for the establishment of a public institution to fulfill the act's provisions.
		The Morrill Act was intended to provide a broad segment of the population with a practical education that had direct relevance to their daily lives.
		The Act of 1862 proposed a system of broad education by colleges, not limited to a superficial and dwarfed training, such as might be supplied by a foreman of a workshop or by a foreman of an experimental farm.
	www.wvu.edu /~exten/about/land.htm (3169 words)

	Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act
		The Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Acts are pieces of US legislation which allowed for the creation land-grant universities, which would be funded by the grant of federally-controlled land to each of the states.
		The Morrill Act was first proposed by Representative Justin Smith Morrill[?] in 1857.
		The second Morrill Act was signed by President Lincoln on July 2, 1862.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Morrill_Act.html (170 words)

	1890
		Morrill was born in 1810 at Strafford, Vermont.
		Morrill was an early Republican and was elected by the Vermont legislature in 1866 to the Senate where he served until his death in 1898.
		The Passage of the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1890
	www.tandl.vt.edu /socialstudies/hicks/cjohnsto/1890.htm (7433 words)

	Land-Grant Colleges
		The original mission of these institutions, as set forth in the first Morrill Act, was to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts as well as classical studies so that members of the working classes could obtain a liberal, practical education.
		The first Morrill Act provided grants in the form of federal lands to each state for the establishment of a public institution to fulfill the act's provisions.
		The Morrill Act was intended to provide a broad segment of the population with a practical education that had direct relevance to their daily lives.
	www.cals.cornell.edu /cals/about/overview/land-grant.cfm (975 words)

	AEA - About Us
		The 1890 Land-Grant Institutions were created as a result of the Second Morrill Act of 1890.
		This situation was rectified by the passage of the Second Morrill Act by the United States Congress in 1890, expanding the 1862 system of land-grant universities to include historically African American institutions.
		Through current 1890 Extension efforts and other outreach programs, the 1890 universities are committed to serving the needs of all communities and families through educational, research and technology transfer mechanisms.
	www.1890aea.org /mainpages/about_us.asp (576 words)

	William P. Hytche - Step By Step To the Top
		The primary tenet of the Morrill Act of 1862 was that all Americans should have equal access to higher education and occupations in agriculture and the industrial and mechanical arts.
		The Morrill Act prompted the philosophy that citizens, regardless of social and economic class, should be afforded the opportunity to achieve according to their own abilities and desires.
		The 1890 land-grant colleges and universities must be prepared to be leaders in the use of electronic communication and information technology in order to gain visibility and be attractive to the financiers of research.
	www.umes.edu /hytche/it.html (2241 words)

	Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1852 Morrill was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1867).
		Under the act, each eligible state received a total of 30,000 acres of federal land, either within or contiguous to its boundaries, for each member of congress the state had as of the census of 1860.
		This act also required each state to show that race was not an admissions criterion, or else to designate a separate land-grant institution for persons of color.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/morrill.html (439 words)

	Cooperative Extension and the 1890 Land-Grant Institution: The Real Story
		Most are familiar with how in 1890 a second Morrill Act was passed that led to the establishment of the 1890 land-grant institution for the agricultural training of Blacks.
		The Morrill Act provided grants for land to states for the establishment and maintenance of at least one college where the leading objective was teaching agriculture, mechanic arts, and military tactics.
		In 1890, the second Morrill Act was passed as a result of economic, social, and political issues in the postwar reconstruction era.
	www.joe.org /joe/2006june/a4.shtml (2773 words)

	Shrine to Justin Smith Morrill
		The genius of the Morrill Act was two-fold, in accord with its two governing principles: the equality of opportunity, and the utility of knowledge.
		The web is full of references to Justin Morrill and the Morrill Act, but if you want to get a handle on the state of the land-grant tradition, the best place to start is with the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
		Intended to bring to light the Illinois origins of the main tenets of the Morrill Act, this bulletin is particularly valuable for primary documents explicating the views of Turner on industrial education, including his peculiar conception of "liberal" education.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/isern/morrill.htm (1335 words)

	Land Grant Information * Events
		In the mid-1800s when the Morrill Act took effect, the rural population in the U.S. was over 80% and over 95% for Florida.
		Morrill’s bill was designed to donate federal land (30,000 acres) to each state and territory as an endowment.
		This federal act conferred land-grant status on 29 Native American colleges as a provision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act.
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant/whatislg.htm (1814 words)

	UNL \| College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Justin Smith Morrill authored the Morrill Act in 1862, establishing Land Grant universities across the nation.
		Justin S. Morrill (1810-1898) was the chief sponsor of the 1862 and 1890 Land-Grant Acts.
		Morrill's 1862 Land-Grant Act, followed by the second Act in 1890, allocated the funds from the sale of federal lands to support new Land-Grant colleges and universities that taught agriculture, business, engineering, mechanics and home economics.
	casnr.unl.edu /jsmorrill (455 words)

	ARS helps science flourish at 1890 Schools - Agricultural Research Service, colleges formed under the Morrill Act of ...
		Also in 1890, there was an update to the 1862 Morrill Act, which provided for the establishment of at least one land-grant college in each state.
		Although the Morrill Act of 1890 was passed to further fund those 1862 institutions, it contained a history-making provision: that states practicing racial discrimination in admissions to 1862 schools could not share in the additional funds provided by the 1890 act.
		As the 100th anniversary of the 1890 Morrill Act neared, the research outlook at the historically fl land-grant institutions was considerably brighter.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3741/is_n2_v41/ai_13518910 (920 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Continuing Education
		Continuing education is an outgrowth of the Morrill Acts of the 1800s.
		The Morrill Act of 1890 expanded the system of schools to include historically fl colleges.
		These public institutions replaced the classical education model with one that emphasized applied learning, which was more practical for citizens on the frontier who needed farming and homemaking skills to be successful in their new environment.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1484 (798 words)

	Second Morrill Act
		-- AN ACT To apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of an act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.
		The Act of April 21, 1976, Public Law 94-273, section 9(1), 90 Stat.378, substituted the words "October" and "December" for the words "July" and "September".
		Original sec 5 of the Act of August 30, 1890, with respect to annual reports by the Secretary of the Interior was repealed by the Act of May 29, 1928, sec.
	www.higher-ed.org /resources/morrill2.htm (412 words)

	GlossaryGlossary Main
		Through the Act of August 30, 1890, and several other authorities, these institutions may receive federal funds for agricultural research, extension, and teaching.
		In cooperation with the 1890 Land Grant Colleges and Universities and Tuskegee University, the USDA conducts the 1890 National Scholars Program to attract outstanding minority students to careers in agriculture.
		See 1890 Land Grant Colleges and Universities and Tuskegee University (and West Virginia State University), 2nd Morrill Act (1890), and Land grant(s); land grant institution(s); land grant university(ies); land grant college(s); land grant colleges and/or universities.
	www.nationalaglawcenter.org /glossary/main.phtml?letter=1 (959 words)

	IMPACT-History and Philosophy of Extension
		The first of those was the Morrill Act of 1862, which created the land-grant university system.
		When the Morrill Act was passed, few people could have guessed its impact on the nation.
		Passed in 1887, the Hatch Act authorized establishment of agricultural experiment stations to expand research capabilities of the land-grant universities.
	muextension.missouri.edu /extcouncil/Impacts/9.htm (926 words)

	MetroNews--History & 1890 Land-Grant Institutions
		Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898) is the Vermont senator credited for the legislation that led to the establishment of land-grant colleges and universities.
		Given the social and political climate of the 1860s, the federal government was unable to secure cooperation from Southern states and therefore sought to pass the Morrill Act of 1890 to support fl educational institutions.
		Ironically, in order for states to receive 1890 funding, race or color could not be a factor in regard to admission or the state had to designate a separate land-grant college for African-Americans.
	www.aces.edu /urban/metronews/vol1no5/history.html (767 words)

	NASULGC: The Land-Grant Tradition Morrill Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		No State shall be entitled to the benefits of this act unless it shall express its acceptance thereof by its legislature within two years from the date of its approval by the President.
		Military tactics—An agricultural college which offers a proper, substantial course in military tactics complies sufficiently with the requirements as to military tactics in the act of July 2, 1862, and the other acts, even though the students at that institution are not compelled to take that course.
		1281) is supplementary to the act of 1862; therefore any default of the provisions of the act of 1862 renders the State liable for noncertification for the annual installments of the funds appropriated by the acts of 1890 and 1907.
	www.nasulgc.org /publications/Land_Grant/LGTrad_FirstMorrillAct.htm (617 words)

	Land-grant university - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Morrill Acts funded educational institutions by granting federally controlled land to the states.
		The mission of these institutions, as set forth in the 1862 Act, is to teach agriculture, military tactics, and the mechanic arts, not to the exclusion of classical studies, so that members of the working classes might obtain a practical college education.
		Iowa was the first state to accept the Morrill Act in 1862, making Iowa State University the first university designated as a land-grant university.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land-grant_university (469 words)

	Land-Grant and Sea-Grant Information
		AN ACT to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in several States under the provisions of an act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and of the acts supplementary thereto
		An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and the Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture.
		An act authorizing the establishment and operation of sea grant colleges and programs by initiating and supporting programs of education and research in the various fields relating to the development of marine resources, and for other purposes.
	www.ifas.ufl.edu /ls_grant/index.htm (1053 words)

	Chronological history of Oregon State University - 1890 to 1899
		The act placed $15,000 at the disposal of the Board of Regents for the year ending July 1890.
		It had been approved on September 24, 1890; Second Morrill Act funds used to purchase the equipment.
		Upon the death of President Arnold on January 30, Professor John Davidson Letcher, B.S., (Professor of Mathematics and Engineering, 1888-1894), the senior faculty member, was appointed by the Board of Regents as acting president (February 17, 1892-May 31, 1892) pending the appointment of a new president.
	osulibrary.oregonstate.edu /archives/chronology/chron_1890.html (1280 words)

	Southern Ag Center
		Southern University is recognized as an 1890 land-grant institution.
		The second Morrill Act of 1890, a federal enactment, bestowed this privilege on the institution for providing the further endowment and support of agricultural and mechanic arts programs.
		Support for research at 1890 institutions began in 1967 as a result of a request from President Lyndon B. Johnson to Congress.
	www.suagcenter.com /info_res.html (290 words)

	National Extension Diversity Center
		This map shows the names and locations of the predominantly white Land Grant Universities and Colleges recognized by the Morrill Act of 1862 and the predominately African-American institutions recognized by the Second Morrill Act of 1890 and the Native American Land Grant Universities and Colleges recognized by an Executive Order in 1994.
		The Justin Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 which provided federal support in the form of a grant of federal lands to any state or territory which agreed to establish a public institution for the teaching of agriculture and the mechanical arts, and promote liberal and practical education.
		The Justin Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1890 which provided for federal support for the establishment of institutions, primarily for agricultural education of Blacks, in the then-segregated Southern states.
	www.ediversitycenter.net /definitions.php (359 words)

	NASULGC: Land-Grant Tradition 1890 Morrill Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Time limit on expenditure of funds—"The moneys appropriated by the act of August 30, 1890" are "in the nature of an annuity to be used from year to year" and cannot be "accumulated or converted into an interest-bearing fund." —Decision of Attorney General, June 20, 1899.
		Expenditures from the funds provided by the act of March 4, 1907, are not authorized "for general courses in pedagogy, psychology, history of education, and methods of teaching." —Rulings of Secretary of the Interior, November 2, 1911, and May 23, 1916.
		The fact of segregation itself does not affect the designated institution's rights and obligations, and Morrill Act funds are specifically available only to institutions established "in accordance with" the conditions of the 1862 enactment.
	www.nasulgc.org /publications/Land_Grant/1890_Act.htm (1513 words)

	Demos - A Network for Ideas & Action - Land Grant Colleges-Forgotten History
		Land grant institutions were designated by The Morrill Act of 1862, which was signed into law by President Lincoln, and was intended, among other mandates, to expand access to public higher education.
		Not coincidentally, the Homestead Act was signed into law a few months earlier in May of 1862 leading to the complete transformation of the nation.
		The Second Morrill Act of 1890 assigned land grant status to 17 historically fl institutions.
	www.demos.org /pub584.cfm (823 words)

	Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station - About Us
		The Morrill Act of 1862 provided for public higher education by establishing colleges in every state and territory endowed through grants of public lands -- thus, land grant institutions.
		The Morrill Act is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln, establishing a national system of Colleges, devoted to agriculture and the mechanic arts and partially funded by federal land grants.
		The second Morrill Act becomes law, providing additional federal funding for the land-grant Colleges and establishing institutions of this kind for fl students in southern states.
	www.colostate.edu /Depts/AES/aboutus.html (1807 words)

	The MORRILL ACT of 1862 and 1890 and HBCUs » Emerging Minds African American Culture Magazine
		Sponsored by Congressman Justin Morrill of Vermont, who had been pressing for such legislation since 1857, the act gave to every state that had remained in the Union a grant of 30,000 acres of public land for every member of its congressional delegation.
		This situation was rectified by the passage of the Second Morrill Act by the United States Congress in 1890, expanding the 1862 system of land-grant universities to include African American institutions.
		Since the Morrill Act of 1890 only required Southern states to establish universities for Blacks, almost no HBCUs can be found in regions of the country other than the south; with only a few exceptions.
	www.emergingminds.org /magazine/content/item/1241 (486 words)

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