The Origins of the Record] [Full Text], Morrill, Justin S. Educational Fund. Morrill’s legislation gained a second wind in 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War when Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected president and southern Democrats who had originally opposed the bill seceded from the Union. Charter: The Origin and Role of the Morrill Land-Grant Urbana-Champaign: University Press, 1910. that focused on agriculture and the mechanical arts. of Representatives, Joint Universities and Their Continuing Challenge. Documents, Morrill Act, National Archives and Records On September 11, 1862, Iowa became the first state legislature to officially accept the provisions of the Morrill Act, raising funds for the Iowa State Agricultural College and Model Farm – which later became known as Iowa State University. The Land Grant of 1862 and the Land-Grant Colleges. Washington, D.C. : Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education, 1918, 10.LaMay, Craig L. “Justin Smith Morrill and The Politics of the Land-Grant College Acts” in A Digital Gift to the Nation: Fulfilling the Promise of … [Catalog A Texas A&M social scientist says incarcerated workers play a large role in disaster response, from making sandbags to helping contain wildfires. In order to fund these colleges, the act specified that each state receive 30,000 acres of federal land for every member of Congress in order to lease and eventually sell. This second Morrill Act gave states cash to establish colleges, instead of land, but the colleges founded as part of the Morrill Act of 1890 are still considered to be land-grant colleges. More than 150 years later, the Morrill Act has proven to be a transformative piece of legislation not just for Texas A&M, but for the other universities that were founded under the original 1862 act and the 1890 act, which founded many historically black colleges and universities (HBCU). All rights reserved. On July 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Morrill Act 0f 1862, or the Land Grant Colleges Act. VET team will help care for animals injured and displaced by the wildfires in the region. Our Land and Time; The Land-Grant Idea in American Education. Sixty-nine Bibliography, The House The Origin of the Land Grant Act of 1862 (the so-called Morrill Act) and Some Account of its Author, Jonathan B. Turner. [CDATA[// >