HISTORY 120AC Lecture Notes - Theodore Judah, United States Territorial Acquisitions, Morrill Land-Grant Acts
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Look out on your email -- more announcements on schedule. Not-so-free soil: westward expansion & the civil war. Costs & consequences: emancipation, sharecropping & monoculture cotton production exploded after the war. 1: opportunities in the south are limited -- especially for blacks. Creating corridors & communities: the construction & impact of the. Homesteaders & the west: the homestead act (1862) ** farming is very hard work - harder than people expected. Homestead act: 1862-1934: 1. 6m applications, 270m acres. 2. some people follow the letter of the law, not the spirit, so they just build a house on it then leave it for 5 years in order to sell it later. Technical assistance: the morrill land grant act (1862, assist farmers, loggers, miners, etc study sciences/skills. Justin morrill (vermont) proposed: originally brought up in the 1850s, 30,000acres/senator to establish schools, land grant universities (like. ,000/mile for rugged/mountainous areas: land grants, the union pacific, labor.
