alleryStart learning →What did the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862 allot to each state?
APublic land for agricultural and industrial colleges
BFederal cash for new railway survey offices
CPublic land for military training grounds
DFederal grain for the relief of poor farmers
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Public land for agricultural and industrial colleges
1. 1. The allotment is public land, made to each state.
2. 2. Its stated purpose is the establishment of agricultural and industrial colleges.
3. 3. Those colleges were to serve both as places of teaching and as centres for research in scientific farming.
4. 4. Cash, training grounds and grain relief are all outside what the act allotted.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section MACHINES AND SCIENCE HELP FARMERS_
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