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Question: After the stock market crashed, Congress put tariffs on imported goods. What was the effect of these tariffs?

Responses:

The tariffs led to an overproduction of food.

The tariffs caused risky fluctuations in the market.

The tariffs allowed American businesses to recover.

The tariffs created an escalating trade war.

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The tariffs created an escalating trade war. (The Smoot–Hawley Tariff of 1930 provoked retaliatory tariffs abroad and deepened the collapse in international trade.)