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Concept information

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1890 Institutions

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information Enacted August 30, 1890 (chapter 841, 26 Stat. 417), this law authorized additional direct appropriations for the land grant colleges of agriculture that had been established under the Morrill Act of 1862. The most significant feature of the second Morrill Act was that the 1862 schools could receive the additional funds only if they admitted blacks into their programs or if they provided separate but equal agricultural higher education to black students.

Broader concept

Synonyms

  • 1890 Land Grant Institutions
  • 1890 Land Grant Universities
  • 1890 Universities
  • Colleges of 1890
  • Morrill Act of 1890 Institutions

In other languages

  • Spanish

  • Instituciones Establecidas bajo el Esquema de Terrenos Concedidos (Land Grant) de 1890
  • Universidades Establecidas bajo el Esquema de Terrenos Concedidos (Land Grant) de 1890

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https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/1326

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