What Did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff Demonstrate About

Multiple Choice

What did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff demonstrate about U.S. trade policy from 1920 to 1930?

A) the United States was committed to laissez-faire economics.
B) the United States was willing to raise tariffs to protect domestic manufacturers.
C) the United States wanted to maintain lower tariffs.
D) the concept free trade would never be abandoned.
E) the nation had completely abandoned the principles of free trade.