Question 4 • MCPSS AL-Grade 6 United States Studies: The Industrial Revolution to the Present - Summer School 2026
When the government sold war bonds, citizens lent money to the government, which promised to repay them later with interest. The money helped pay for the war, so the government raised funds—not hundreds of billions of dollars immediately in every case, but this is the effect described by choice D. Bond buyers did not receive immediate returns, and the bonds were not mandatory loans given to citizens.
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