The Missouri Plan Is One of the Oldest Forms of Merit

question 139

True/False

The Missouri Plan is one of the oldest forms of merit plan.

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Definitions:

Railroad Construction

The process of building the infrastructure necessary for train travel, including tracks, stations, and bridges.

Society

A group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

Scalawags

Southern white Republicans—some former Unionists—who supported Reconstruction governments.

Non-slaveholding White Farmers

describes white farmers in the southern United States before the Civil War who did not own slaves, often working their own land and living in economically marginal conditions.