Teapot+Dome+Scandal,+Albert+B.+Fall

Home 1920's Topics __1920’s Project Assignment__ Teapot Dome Scandal, Albert B. Fall Researched by Zach O.
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__Task One---DESCRIBE YOUR TOPIC -Due Tuesday, February 7__ Each topic includes an association or movement and an individual. Please write __two__ extended power paragraphs that address the following prompt:**Explain the achievements associated with your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1920s. Explain the relationship between the individua****l and the association or movement.**
 * Support the ideas in each paragraph with evidence from a minimum of three  credible sources.
 * Select only signed  sources from the LC databases--each source must have a credible author.
 * Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced.
 * Credit sources with internal citations and in a Works Cited.
 * Insert the Works Cited after the Third Task.
 * Post the paragraphs to the wiki. Timely posting of completed tasks earn 10 points.

Albert B. Fall had lived most of his life in New Mexico and worked in the mines to support his wife and children. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">From 1898-1899, Fall served in the Spanish-American War. After his military term, h <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">e was later elected <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">New Mexico Territory's House of Representatives. In 1912, Fall was appointed to the United States Senate until 1921, and then became the new Secretary of the Interior.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">During Harding's Presidency, Fall had full power for his department of certain oil <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: small;">fields in Wyoming and California that had been managed by the Navy Department. He secretly sent the oil over with the help of two private companies as a bribe. It included a fortune for himself of $125,000. Teapot Dome, Wyoming was one of three places for supplying petroleum, but at the time, it was being used for the Navy. He was later sent to prison after being convicted of bribery.

<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">__Task Two-EVALUATE YOUR TOPICS INFLUENCE-Due Friday, February 10__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Please write two extended power paragraphs which each cite a minimum of three credible sources. Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1920s. How extensive was the influence? Which part of society was influenced? Did the change endure or stimulate additional changes? What is the topic's legacy? What impact did the topic have in the Twenty-First century. In 1922, word had it that a lease was about to be made on Naval Reserve no. 3, 2 and 1 in a place called Teapot Dome, in Wyoming. It was to preserve the land for the oil for the Navy to have it available for some time in the future. Teapot Dome was one of three areas that contained a mass amount of petroleum. A drainage took place from the Teapot Dome into the Salt Creek wells since the Federal Trade Commission realized that the citizens in Wyoming were paying lot more money for oil than any other state.

Fall was caught for illegally renting the the Naval occupied lands in Wyoming and California for other oil companies, in return for a lot of money of his own. After he was caught, he was sent to prison for a year and fined $100,000.

<span style="background-color: #9008b6; color: #7dff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Task ThreeJUDGE THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL & ASSOCIATION---Due Feb. 15 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">Now that you have a basic understanding of your topic, and you know the scope of its influence, explain the forces that produced or created the topic. Additionally, what were the driving forces behind the society's reaction to your topic? Use the criteria described in the the Great Man Continuum to determine your topics long-run influence on society. Place your topic on the continuum and justify the reasons for your placement. Please confine your analysis to two extended power paragraphs with each citing a minimum of three credible sources. Albert B. Fall was elected Secretary of the Interior since he was a personal friend of President Harding. Fall was in financial trouble and decided to illegally lease the Teapot Dome reserves to Harry F. Sinclair in Wyoming, and another Reserves in Elk Hills, California <span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">Edward Doheny of the Pan American Petroleum Company ( //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">American Government). //Fall received ample amounts of cash from both Doheny and Sinclair. Fall eventually resigned.

<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">The Congress made a joint resolution, in which they made the oil leases illegal. They had President Coolidge appoint special counsel to prosecute on behalf of the government. Fall and Doheny were sent to trial and acquitted of criminal conspiracy. Sinclair received up to 3 months in jail, then another 6 month sentence because of jury tampering. Fall was then fined and sent for 1 year of prison. After the cancellation of the Teapot Dome lease, the Navy received over $12 million from Sinclair. This event marked one of the most incompetent and corrupt administrations in American history.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Works Cited

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Britannica Unicode Sans Roman','Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. Thomas J. Walsh "Teapot Dome," Annals of American History. []

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3. "Warren Harding." //American Government.// ABC-CLIO, 2012.

4. <span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">"Teapot Dome scandal." //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif'; vertical-align: baseline;">American Government //<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';">. ABC-CLIO,<span style="color: #121917; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,'sans serif';"> 2012. Web. 15 Feb. 2012. []

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Rubric for all three tasks: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">Outstanding paragraphs include the following elements: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Accurate power paragraph format with each paragraph citing evidence from three different sources. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> ✓ Correct research components such as credibility statement, internal citations, Works Cited entries <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Thoughtful and thorough response to the each prompt <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ A variety of sentences with interesting, clear diction <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Photos exemplifying the influence of the individual and association or movement <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Place your topic on the Great Man Continuum;  <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> ✓ Complete the criteria table to justify the reasons for your placement.