The Fordney-McCumber and Hawley-Smoot Tariff laws had the long-term effect of
a. bringing American farmers out of the agricultural depression of the early 1920s.
b. encouraging the United States to turn more to Asia than to Europe for imports.
c. shrinking international trade and making it impossible for Europe to repay American war loans.
d. lowering the prices Americans paid for domestic manufactured goods.
e. pressuring the Europeans to lower their own tariff rates in order to retain American trade.
c
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A. teaching that humans were fundamentally sinful. B. encouraging more concern with the afterlife than with life on earth. C. doctrinal disputes and intolerance. D. inciting wars. E. taking too limited a role in national politics.
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