d. the secretary of the interior, who received money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies.
Teapot dome scandal, involved secretary Interior, Albert Fall who accepted valuable gifts & large sums of money from private oil companies and in turn rewarded them with leasing contracts
the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen basically granted many freedoms and rights for all men in France. It was influenced by the doctrine of natural rights: these rights are held to be universal and valid in all times and places. Ultimately, this declaration impacted the Declaration of Independence in the United States. The declaration defines a single set of individual and collective rights for all men. For example, "Men are born and remain free and equal in rights."
The Middle Ages were considered "a dark time for learning" because there was a reliance on religion to explain all of the mysteries of life instead of science, which greatly limited the extent to which people could question physical activity in the universe. This all changed in the Renaissance.