Basically, they used to only have white candidates run for primaries in elections. When the supreme court said that this practice was unconstitutional, they decide to not have primaries but rather to preselect the candidate in order to avoid having African-american politicians join the primaries. This was an act of racism.</span>
Answer: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised U.S. imported duties with the goal of protecting American farmers and other industries from foreign competition. The act is now widely blamed for worsening the severity of the Great Depression in the U.S. and around the world.
