Question

What was the Teapot Dome scandal?

A. Harding’s Attorney General Harry Daugherty committed suicde.
B. Harding’s head of the Veterans Bureau Charles Forbes was convicted of embezzlement.
C. Harding’s Attorney General Harry Daugherty was accused of influence peddling.
D. Harding’s Interior Secretary Albert Fall was accused of leasing government-owned oilfields to private business without allowing competitive bids.
E. Harding’s Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace was accused of handing over farmland to a mining company.

Answer 1

Harding’s interior secretary Albert Fall was accused of leasing government owned oil fields to private businesses without allowing competitive bids.

Step-by-step explanation:

Albert Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at the Teapot Dome in Wyoming, and in two other locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding.