USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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rationing

(A) the militaries use of civilian materials

(B) ** the government restricts buying and selling certain materials

(C) the government restricts certain information from being published

(D) the government teaches war in schools through math

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Concept note-1: -Rationing provides governments with a way to constrain demand, regulate supply, and cap prices, but it does not totally neutralize the laws of supply and demand. Black markets often spring up when rationing is in effect. These allow people to trade rationed goods they may not want for ones they do.

Concept note-2: -Definition: Rationing refers to an artificial control on the distribution of scarce resources, food items, industrial production, etc.

Concept note-3: -rationing, government policy consisting of the planned and restrictive allocation of scarce resources and consumer goods, usually practiced during times of war, famine, or some other national emergency.

Concept note-4: -Even though thousands of items became scarce during the war, only those most critical to the war effort were rationed. Key goods such as sugar, tires, gasoline, meat, coffee, butter, canned goods and shoes came under rationing regulations. Some important items escaped rationing, including fresh fruit and vegetables.