Teapot Dome Scandal

Political cartoon of the teapot dome scandal?

The teapot dome scandal is a different name for the incident where the US government leased oil to a private oil company in 1921. This was one of the many scandals of the Harding administration.

Albert Fall received bribes in exchange for leasing government-owned oil reserves in Teapot Dome, Wyoming to private oil companies without competitive bidding. This scandal became known as the Teapot Dome scandal and was a major political scandal in the 1920s.

The teapot dome scandal is in the 1920s, the secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, accepted a bribe to lease government land to oil companies. One of these pieces of land was call "Teapot Dome" Wyoming.