During world war ii, the federal government urged americans to support the war effort by ? manufacturing more consumer goods , increasing spending to stimulate the economy, reducing consumption of resources needed for the military, investing their savings in the stock market

Reducing consumption of resources needed for the military

Explanation:

The federal government asked the population to reduce their consumption as much as possible, since they were facing a total war.

Total war is a term of the twentieth century that describes a war in which countries or nations mobilize and force to the limit all available resources, whether human, military, industrial, agricultural, natural, technological, scientific, or of any other kind, to totally destroy the ability of another country or nation to engage in a war. The practice of total warfare has been used for centuries, but it was not until the mid-nineteenth century that it was recognized as a different way of waging war.

equal pay act of 1963. the equal pay act, signed in to law by president john f. kennedy on june 10, 1963, was one of the first federal anti-discrimination laws that addressed wage differences based on gender. they felt that this would prevent employers from undercutting future wages for men.

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