WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
GILDED AGE POLITICS
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Question
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It was named after President Teapot and the Republican Party
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It was named after the corrupt Tea Party that was stealing votes.
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It was named after an oil reserve near a rock formation that looked like a teapot.
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It was named after President Grant’s favorite teapot given to him by his grandmother.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The outline of the rock once resembled a teapot and gave its name to several man-made and natural features, including a geologic structural uplift known as the Teapot Dome, and an oil field about 6 miles (10 km) east.
Detailed explanation-2: -On the previous day, the Wall Street Journal had reported an unprecedented secret arrangement in which the secretary of the Interior, without competitive bidding, had leased the U.S. naval petroleum reserve at Wyoming’s Teapot Dome to a private oil company.
Detailed explanation-3: -Teapot Dome Oilfield, 7.25 miles northeast of Teapot Rock and 9 miles southeast of the intersection of Wyoming 259 and Wyoming 387, Midwest, Natrona County, WY . Wyoming Midwest Natrona County, 1968.