The 1862 Morrill Land Grant College Act:

a. was a major land grant program for railroads which provided subsidies to colleges
b. encouraged the building of state-operated agricultural colleges
c. looked good on paper, but it made no real long-range impact
d. gave land to the states mostly in the Pacific Northwest


B

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