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Q: Who was the Morrill land grant designed to help?
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What was the purpose of the land grant schools established by the morrill act?

To teach them military skills


Quite a bit of land resulting from this act was purchased by land speculators?

is not "The Homestead Act :) " It's the Morrill Land-Grant Act


Who was associated with the establishment of land grant colleges?

state universtites to teach agriculture and mechanical arts.


What act gave millions of acres of federal lands to the states to sell them and use the funds to build agricultural and engineering colleges?

The Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act .


What did Morrill Land grant Act do?

The MLGA transformed higher education and was responsible for the establishment of numerous colleges across the country. In this legislation, championed in the Congress by Justin Smith Morrill, the federal government took, for the first time, a leadership role in higher education in the United States.