Answer:
It changed private colleges to public colleges.
Explanation:
The Whig Party had a progressive pasta (in some points, of course), and when it comes to education, their main beliefs is that it should be free, public and universal, as advocated by Horace Mann, one of the most preeminent representants of the Whig Party and the responsible for one of the first educational reformation in the United States, creating several public colleges (or Universal Colleges, as he used to say), and turning many private colleges into public ones.
