Question

What was the Teapot Dome scandal?

a .Harding’s Attorney General Harry Daugherty committed suicide.

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

It was  Harding’s Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace was accused of handing over farmland to a mining company.

So your correct answer is E.

Answer 2

Answer:

e. Harding’s Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace was accused of handing over farmland to a mining company.

Explanation:

The Tea kettle Dome Scandal, in American history, the outrage of the mid-1920s encompassing the secret leasing of federal oil reserves by the secretary of the interior, Albert Bacon Fall. After Pres. Warren G. Harding moved supervision of the maritime oil-save lands from the naval force to the Department of the Interior in 1921, Fall covertly conceded to Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Company select rights to the Teapot Dome (Wyoming) holds (April 7, 1922). He conceded comparable rights to Edward L. Doheny of Pan American Petroleum Company for the Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills saves in California.