Question

Was the Hawley Smoot Tariff Act an example of protectionism?

Answer 1

Answer choices? c:

Answer 2

there arent any.

Answer 3

Do you know what those terms mean?

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

"As the global economy entered the first stages of the Great Depression in late 1929, the USA's main goal emerged to protect American jobs and farmers from foreign competition. Reed Smoot championed another tariff increase within the USA in 1929, which became the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill. In his memoirs, Smoot made it abundantly clear:"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act