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Option: d. the secretary of the interior, who received money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies.
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The Teapot Dome scandal appeared in America in the 1920s when Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior, was accused of taking bribes from fuel companies ( Harry F. Sinclair. and Edward L. Doheny) in exchange for permissions to drill on federal land for oil. The scandal shocked the American people because it exposed corruption and greed present in the government.
The Reconstruction era redefined U.S. citizenship and expanded the franchise, changed the relationship between the federal government and the governments of the states, and highlighted the differences between political and economic democracy.
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The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain.
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