How did the US government limit the amount of scarce goods that a person could obtain? A. It issued ration books with stamps. B. It made the purchase of large quantities of goods illegal. C. It let families of soldiers buy more goods than other families. D. It set up a lottery system to determine how much a person could buy.

The correct answer for the question that is being presented above is this one: "B. It made the purchase of large quantities of goods illegal." One of the ways in which the US government limited the amount of scarce goods that a person could obtain was that " It made the purchase of large quantities of goods illegal," since this limited "stockpiling".