Hoover's response to the Great Depression was the Smoot-Hawley tariff which rose tariffs on over 20,000 products. ... Hoover was nicknamed "Do nothing" by the Democrats, they blamed him for sticking to Laissez faire economics, but this accusation was wrong as he pushed for more state intervention which eventually failed.
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