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AEE 501 Worksheet on Land Grant Colleges

Part I – True and False (75 points)

Most of the answers can be found by reading the two Morrill Acts. Beside each statement write whether the statement is True or False.

1^st Morrill Act

________ 1. Each state was given 30,000 acres of land to sell for each senator and 20,000 for each representative.

________ 2. If there were no public lands in your state to sell, the state was given land scrip to sell.

________ 3. The money from the sale of lands was to be invested and the interest used to support the land grant colleges.

________ 4. It was possible for more than one college to be established in each state.

________ 5. The leading objects of study were to be agricultural and mechanical arts.

________ 6. These colleges were designed for the industrial classes.

________ 7. No more than 25% of the monies could be used to erect buildings?

________ 8. When the Act was passed North Carolina accepted the provisions within two months.

2^nd Morrill Act

________ 9. According to the first paragraph of the 2nd Morrill Act, the act was to create land-grant colleges for Negro students.

_______ 10. Each state was to receive an additional $25,000 to support land-grant colleges when the 2^nd Morrill Act was fully implemented.

_______ 11. The 2nd Morrill Act clearly states the funds are to be applied to instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, the English language and the various branches of mathematical, physical, natural, and economic science

_______ 12. Funds could be used for “facilities” in the 2nd Morrill Act.

_______ 13. If you lived in a state where "race or color" was used as an admission criteria to the 1862 land-grant college you could not receive 2nd Morrill Act funds unless the admission standards were changed at the 1862 institutions.

_______ 14. The funds provided by the 2nd Morrill Act had to be divided equally between 1862 and 1890 institutions.

________ 15. The state supreme court made the determination as to how funds would be divided in states with 1862 and 1890 institutions.

Part II. Discussion (25 points) Kemp Battle, President of the University of North Carolina from 1876 to 1891 wrote a two volume history of the University of North Carolina. In Volume II he discusses the land-grant status of the University. The History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 can be found on-line at http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/battle2/battle2.html. You are to answer the following question:

“Why did the University of North Carolina fail as a land grant institution?”

In order to answer this question you must use at least three direct quotes from Battle’s book to support your views. The page number from the book for each quotation must be cited. You can use the index to aid in your search. Look under land grant fund. Some pages that may be of specific interest include pages, 16, 81, 92, 93, 109, 123. 124, 137-139, 220, 274-275, 374-384.

Note: this is a graduate class. One of the characteristics of graduate education is that students should carefully analyze and evaluate statements that people make. In other words you should be able to detect BS. A graduate student doesn’t always accept what they read at face value or what a person says at face value. A person may say something but his or her actions may say something else. Please keep this in mind as your read President Battle’s book.

Some Food for Thought? (You do not have to answer these questions for this assignment but please think about them. These would be good questions for a Master’s or Doctoral exam)

1. What must NCSU do in order not to fail as a land grant institution?

2. IS NCSU fulfilling its mission at a land grant institution?