President Hoover signing the _______ led to a reduction in foreign trade, hurting the American economy even more.
A. Social Security Act
B. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
C. agreement to join the United Nations
D. Hoover-Pierce Tariff
B) smoot hawyer tariff Smoot hawyer tariff act of 1930, u.s. Legislation that raised import duties to protect American buisnesses and farmers adding comsiderable strain to the international economic climate of the Great Depression