D is the closest answer. The problem was that the naval oil reserves were located in Teapot Dome Wyoming and these reserves were secretly transferred to the Mammoth Oil company. There was no bid. There was no fairness in the transaction. It was motivated mostly by greed, it seems. Harding's administration was riddled with problems. This was just one of them.
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Answer: 1 )The land west of the Mississippi was unsuitable for farming and white settlers wanted to move to the Southeast where Native Americans lived. They wanted the government to move the Native Americans to the Plains so the whites could settle in the Southeast for farming.
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The sixteenth amendment (amendment XVI)