The Morrill Act was clearly a pioneering thought for the time horizon of the United States and was met with strong criticism from universities. At that time, schools taught religion, law and medicine. Morrill's vision came from Europe, where European farmers were shown to produce higher yields on smaller plots of land than in the United States (LaMay 77). This is where Morrill sought to bring people of different backgrounds, economic backgrounds and social classes to be educated and useful to all. By allowing widespread education in the United States, the country has opened many doors to a larger population of the country. When Morrill wrote the act, he also had an inspiring method for producing money to fund colleges through interest from the sale of public lands (“The Land Grant Tradition”). With the passage of the Homestead Act, prior to the signing of the Morrill Act, the Homestead Act gave the western states and territories 160 acres of land. When Morrill brought the bill back to the House and Senate, he urged Congress to increase the land area to thirty thousand, but more importantly including the teaching of military skills along with the land grant provision (LaMay 78). The Morrill Act brought together a larger assembly of new American landowners along with a way to educate people about caring for the land and how to improve its returns. With the advent of the industrial age, it was a near-perfect time for Justin Morrill and his idea of ​​expanding from Europe. Land-grant colleges were a major movement in the education system in the United States. With the passage of the Morrill Act, federal land was set aside for each state to provide a school to educate the people in agriculture and the mechanical arts. The purp...... middle of paper ......n black land-grant colleges in the South. Improving agricultural uses through research Once again, the rise of land-grant colleges had many factors that contributed to getting these colleges started and the land grant process to each state. The main factors that have played an important role are social needs, to increase the efficiency of agricultural production. Agriculture was the primary source of income for much of the Western population, and current production was extremely inefficient. Land-grant colleges were an important stepping stone toward building the land-grant system, where now more than 10 percent of American college students are enrolled in a grand college. An educational dream that goes beyond traditional education, to create a “people's college,” as Justin Morrill puts it, capable of educating the largest, most diverse and growing population in the United States.