The answer would be B, i hope this helps, good luck.
Answer:
He took protectionist measures
Explanation:
Hoover was nicknamed "do nothing" by the Democrats, it is not true that he did not try to solve the crisis but he definitely failed to solve it. He defended the Smoot-Hawley tariff which made the situation much worse.
This is just a guess but maybe he feels out of place in the US.
There was many effects, but the key one is that the fifteenth amendment had gave African American Men a Voice in the government, and it legitimatize the establishment of a segregated society in the Southern States.