11:374:279 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Morrill Land-Grant Acts, Overexploitation, Cornucopian
18 Dec 2017
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Important note: bullet points under the heading in lecture are points that are not explicitly covered in the readings, but that i will fully explain in lecture. Please take careful notes on these in lecture points! Lecture 12: extracting natural resources on private land: agriculture. What other values might have motivated the federal government to encourage homesteading: homesteading: 270 million acres given away to people who promise to make it productive - usually done by farming. What was the federal government seeking to accomplish with the morrill act of 1862, which established land-grant colleges like what is now the rutgers school of. Environmental and biological sciences: morrill act establishes land grand universities. What were some of the environmental (and eventually economic) consequences that resulted from the federal government"s policies to encourage farming in the midwest and. Great plains: exhausted land: overfarming contributes to the dust bowl, struggling people: surplus crops result in prices too low for farmer to live on.
