hawley-smoot tariff act introduced new tariffs for 900 import items from foreign countries and increased the already high import tariff level from 40% to 48%.
This increase was felt badly by the manufacturing and the commerce sector in both USA and Europe and worsened the Great Depression too.
It was also a reason behind the Europe's struggling economies and the beginning of the 2nd world war.
<h3>Hi i think the answer is <u><em>D.People were forced to produce more crops for the royal officials, who in turn would sell the crops to create public works projects.</em></u></h3>
Scarcity is the fundamental problem facing all societies. It is the condition that results from society not having enough resources to produce all the things that people would like to have.