Question

The Teapot Dome Scandal was about Secretary of Interior Albert Fall doing what?

A. selling/leasing government owned oil to private investors
B. buying illegal merchandise from the Soviet Union
C. trying to deport all the communist people
D. selling government secrets to the Germans

Answer 1

A

Step-by-step explanation:

Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. The leases were the subject of a seminal investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh.