Land Grant University

Prior to the 1850s, who was education reserved for

wealthy elites

what subjects were welthy elites able to access

• law

• greek

• seminary

• economic

• latin

• science

• art

• philosophy

• medicine

• literature

• politics

• engineering

what was the significance of justin morrill

the morill act of 1862 aka the land grant act

what did Jack morrill propose in 1857

an institution should be made for teaching agriculture and mechanics

what are key quotes that are important to note in the morrill Act of 1862`

• at least one college in every state

• accessible to all - especially to the sons of toil

• all needful science for the practical avocations of life shall be taught

• where agriculture , the foundation of all present and future prosperity , may look for troops of earnest friends

What happened to the Morril Act

it was passed by congress but was vetoed by president james Buchannan

why did the president veto the act

the president claimed that it was an overreach of congressional power

true or false: justin morrill tried to get his act up again in 1861

true

what was added or made different about morrills second proposal

it included: teaching agriculture, mechanics AND military tactics- leadin to devlopment of ROTC in every insitution

where did the funding of this proposal come from allocation of

30K acres per congressman

where would the land be

in the state and usually west of mississippi

Where did the land mostly come from regarding the Morrill Act

the lnd allocated ot the states were largely seized from indigenous people

Who signed the Morrill Act of 1862

Abe Lincoln

After the civil war what were southern states able to do

request their own land to start their own land grants

Historically what were land grnat colleges used to be known as

cow colleges

True or False: Som estates were more fincnacially supportive of their land grant instuiton than others

True: some states had more money to do so

What did the Second Morrill Act of 1890 do:

• further endowment- further annual financial support BUT

• provision that race could not be used as criteria for admission

true or false: eveyr state has a land grant

true

what is improtant to note about land grant universites

hawaii did not get land, by the time it had become a state it as decided that they would get direct funding to start their land grant institution

what was sgnificant about agricultural knowledge during that time

agicultural information was slow to come by and often wrong - people were still trying to figure otu how to deal with different soil types, diseases.. ect

What is being described:

• annual funding to establish and support agricultural experiment station

• state decided how experient station interacted with land grant

• UF animal cience related facilitites in Gnv:

  • Equine sceineces center

  • north florida research and education center

  • range cattleresearch and education center

hatch act of 1887

What is the Smith lever Act (1914) -aka Cooperative Extension

• educating the public

• shared partnership between federal, state and county levels of government

• in fl every county has an extension office to go to for info and educational programming

• IFAS program

what 3 mission make up the land grant mission or (IFAS)

• teaching

• research

• extension