The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery aspersion comprising the government of Warren G. Harding, the then U.S.President. Albert Bacon Fall, the then Secretary of the Interior chartered Navy petroleum supplies at Teapot Dome and 2 places in California, to individual oil corporations at cheap prices without competing bidding. The contracts were the topic of a critical inquiry by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Adjudged of taking kickbacks from the oil corporations, Fall became the earliest administrative committee officer to go to penitentiary.
They had bountiful amounts of lumber for timber industry, and harbors provided for great ports for trade. The populations were more ethnically mixed than those of the other colonies.
