"a. advanced political organization" was not a broad trend from 8000 to 600 BCE, due mostly to the fact that this didn't happen under labor became far more specialized, along with more advanced trade.
By going through the court system
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff had the direct effect of "making the Great Depression much worse" and elongated, since it greatly limited international trade, which was one of the things that was actually needed.