Generally speaking, farmers were left out of the 1920s prosperity to some degree due to this governmental policy.

High tariffs in the 1920s protected American manufacturers from foreign competition, but other countries often responded with tariffs of their own. Those retaliatory tariffs made it harder for U.S. farmers to sell crops overseas, contributing to farmers being left out of the decade’s prosperity. The correct choice is tariffs.

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