The Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930 was
a. a tax on raw materials for industrialization.
b. a means to supply the USSR with machines for the Lend-Lease program.
c. an economic embargo imposed by the European Allies against German imports in retaliation for suspension of reparations payments.
d. a protective tariff on imported goods applied by the United States to stimulate the domestic economy.
e. a plan to tax participants in the League of Nations to pay for rebuilding the European economy.
ANSWER:
d
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