The Morrill Land Grant Act, passed during the Civil War in 1862, was important in that it
a. set aside land in Kansas on which freed slaves could build a community
b. provided the states with federal land on which they were to build public colleges
c. provided land to widows of fallen Union soldiers
d. granted railroad companies wide swaths of land on which they were to build new rail lines
e. set aside of millions of acres in southern states for national forests and national parks
Ans: b. provided the states with federal land on which they were to build public colleges
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