Answer:
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
Explanation:
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is also known as US Tariff Act of 1930. It was a legislation to raise the import duties so the American farmers and businesses could be protected. The legislation got its name from Willis Hawley of Oregon and Reed Smoot of Utah.
Smoot was a senator from Utah and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee while Hawley was chariman of House Ways and Means committee. It was most harsh protectionist tariff in the country's history and raised the import tax by 40 percent.
It was done because American farmers were facing declining prices and competition after first world war during 1920s and the government wanted to improve their situation. The legislation was passed by narrow margin(44-42) and president Hoover signed the bill on June 17, 1930 and it became a law.
Slaveholders wanted to expand slavery west, and conflict broke out between anti-slavery and pro-slavery Americans in Kansas I.E Bloody Kansas.
2. Because it set the precedent through the Supreme Court that blacks whether free or still in slavery were not citizens and were considered property (if slaves), therefore could not sue in court. The north was primarily against slavery whereas the South was pro-slavery.
<span>Well mostly, people identify more strongly with regional and ethnic groups than with the nation...perhaps I'd go with the option A.</span>
By far the most prominent black entrepreneur of the century of was Charles Clinton Spaulding (1874 – 1952), president of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in Durham North Carolina. It was the nation's largest black-owned business. That’s my thoughts on it, I could be wrong so check in with others too.
