Key Terms 1 Ch. 31-35
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US History [1]
Teapot Dome- an unprecedented?bribery?scandal and investigation during the White House administration of President?Warren G. Harding. In 1921, by?executive order?of President Harding, control of?U.S. Navy?petroleum?reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming and at?Elk Hills?and?Buena Vista?in?California, were transferred from the?U.S. Navy Department?to the?Department of the Interior. The petroleum reserves had been set aside for the Navy by?President Taft. In 1922,?Albert B. Fall,?U.S. Secretary of the Interior, leased, without competitive bidding, the Teapot Dome fields to?Harry F. Sinclair?of?Sinclair Oil, and the field at Elk Hills, California, to?Edward L. Doheny. In 1922 and 1923, these transactions became the subject of a sensational?U.S.