JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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It was the first public school to offer a degree in microbiology.
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It was where Abraham Lincoln went to college
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It was the first American Land Grant University created by the government.
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It allowed Native American Indians to stay in the buildings when President Jackson took their land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -UGA became a land-grant institution in 1872 under the Morrill Act, national legislation that formalized the university’s mandate to use its personnel and resources to benefit the state’s citizens.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chartered by the Georgia General Assembly in 1785, UGA was the first university in America to be created by a state government, and the principles undergirding its charter helped lay the foundation for the American system of public higher education.
Detailed explanation-3: -According to the Association of Public Land Grant Universities, a land-grant college or university is an institution that has been designated by its state legislature or Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first state to do so was Georgia, which set aside 40, 000 acres for higher education in 1784 and incorporated the University of Georgia in 1785.