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Morrill Hall, the first building of Cornell University, is named for Senator Justin Morrill, in honor of the Morrill Land-Grant act. Beaumont Tower at Michigan State University marks the site of College Hall which is the first building in the United States to teach agricultural science.
Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act; Long title: A bill to punish and prevent the Practice of Polygamy in the Territories of the United States and other Places, and disapproving and annulling certain Acts of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah. Nicknames: Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act of 1862: Enacted by: the 37th United States Congress: Effective ...
"In adjusting the details of a tariff," Morrill explained with a rhetorical flourish in his introduction of the bill, "I would treat agriculture, manufactures, mining, and commerce, as I would our whole people—as members of one family, all entitled to equal favor, and no one to be made the beast of burden to carry the packs of others." [23]
Morrill Hall at Iowa State University, one of several Morrill Halls at colleges created by the Morrill Act The Morrill Tariff of 1861 was a protective tariff law adopted on March 2, 1861. Passed after anti-tariff southerners had left Congress during the process of secession, Morrill designed it with the advice of Pennsylvania economist Henry C ...
Though Alabama A&M is Alabama's official 1890 Morrill Act institution, the mission and unique history of Tuskegee are so similar to those of the 1890 institutions that it functions as a de facto land-grant university and is almost universally regarded as one of them. Tuskegee is a land-grant member of APLU, as are Alabama A&M and Auburn.
In 1862, [26] the federal government's Morrill Act provided for land grant colleges in each state. Educational institutions established under the Morrill Act in the North and West were open to blacks. But 17 states, almost all in the South, required their post-Civil war systems to be segregated and excluded black students from their land grant ...
One such act was the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act, which was signed into law on July 8, 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln. The act banned plural marriage and limited church and non-profit ownership in any territory of the United States to $50,000. [7] The act targeted the LDS Church's control of Utah Territory. The measure had no funds allocated for ...
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