Since they produced inferior quality steel, this is a failure. Therefore, this means that the Chinese government failed to invest in industrialization.
P.S. Having been to China a few months ago, they don't have backyard furnaces anymore :)
What were rationing programs implemented to do? What types of things were rationed?
The main reason why Congress worked to keep a balance between the number of slaveholding states and free states is because they wanted to avoid war breaking out between the North and the South. They tried to do this through a series of compromises that ultimately failed.
