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The Morrill Act of 1862 (12 Stat. 503 (1862) [1] later codified as 7 U.S.C. § 301 et seq.) was enacted during the American Civil War, and the Morrill Act of 1890 (the Agricultural College Act of 1890 (26 Stat. 417, later codified as 7 U.S.C. § 321 et seq.)) expanded this model.
The Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act (37th United States Congress, Sess. 2., ch. 126, 12 Stat. 501) was a federal enactment of the United States Congress that was signed into law on July 1, 1862, by President Abraham Lincoln.
Logo for the centennial of land-grant universities. A land-grant university (also called land-grant college or land-grant institution) is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, [1] or a beneficiary under the Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1994. [2]
Morrill Act of 1862: Created the land-grant university system. Pub. L. 37–130: 1875 Civil Rights Act of 1875: Guaranteed equal treatment in public accommodations, including schools. Found unconstitutional in the Civil Rights Cases. 1890 Morrill Act of 1890: Amended the Morrill Act of 1862 to increase federal funding for land-grant universities.
The new act also required that the person "has never borne arms against the United States Government or given aid and comfort to its enemies"; unlike the 1848 and 1850 laws, it did not have any provision mentioning race. The act insured adult U.S. citizens 160 acres of land from the government to "improve their plot by cultivating the land". [32]
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 ...
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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 ...