Teapot Dome Scandal Flashcards
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| 797972619 | Teapot Dome Scandal | Secretary of the Interior (Albert Fall) leased government land in California and at Teapot Dome, Wyoming to 2 oil executives- Fall became the first Cabinet official to be sent to prison | 0 | |
| 797972625 | Albert B. Fall | secretary of the interior under harding | 1 | |
| 797972626 | Edwin Denby | an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy in the administrations of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge from 1921 to 1924 | 2 | |
| 797972627 | Harry F. Sinclair | Oilman involved in the Teapot Dome scandal; he bribed Albert Fall with about $300,000, but was not convicted with this. He was sentenced to several months in jail for "shadowing" jurors and for refusing to testify before a Senate committee. | 3 | |
| 797972628 | Edward L. Doheny | Oilman who bribed Fall $100,000 in the Teapot Dome scandal; he was acquitted in court. | 4 | |
| 797972629 | William Harding | president during teapot dome scandel, out of office in 1923 because he dies of heart attack | 5 | |
| 797972630 | Teapot Dome, Elk Hills, and Buena Vista Hills | The three oil reserves involved in the scandal | 6 | |
| 797972631 | Thomas Walsh | Senator from Montana that exposed the Teapot Dome Scandal | 7 | |
| 797972634 | acquit | to find not guilty of a fault or crime | 8 | |
| 797972635 | embezzling | The year Albert. B Fall was found guilty of embezzling naval oil reserves | 9 |