Why were many Americans frustrated with President Hoover’s response during the Great Depression?

A.
He focused more on helping farmers than business owners.

B.
He overreacted to the depression and increased government spending.

C.
He believed that American individuals were helpless to stop the depression.

D.
He refused to provide direct aid, enacted disastrous tariffs, and handled protests poorly.

I believe it is D

Explanation: Hoover did nothing the first 2 years of the depression and after 2 years he decided to act and raised tariffs but that only caused other countries to raise their tariffs and made the situation worse. He also refused to provide direct aid and told the citizens to help each other out instead of the government helping the people.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: