Read the information and answer the question that follows:…

Read the information and answer the question that follows: Teapot Dome: In 1922, President Warren Harding’s Interior Secretary Albert Fall was caught taking bribes from private oil companies related to oil leases on federal land. In 1929, Fall was sentenced to prison.  Which statement explains one effect of this event? 

There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up…

There was never the least attention paid to what was cut up for sausage; there would come all the way back from Europe old sausage that had been rejected, and that was mouldy and white–it would be dosed with borax and glycerine and dumped into hoppers, and made over again for home consumption. –Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906 What was the immediate response to the practices mentioned in this excerpt?  

“The people of the United States are drawn from many nations…

“The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war. It is natural and inevitable that there should be the utmost variety of sympathy and desire among them with regard to the issues and circumstances of the conflict. Some will wish one nation, others another, to succeed in the momentous struggle. It will be easy to excite passion and difficult to allay it… Such divisions among us would be fatal to our peace of mind and might seriously stand in the way of the proper performance of our duty as the one great nation at peace, the one people holding itself ready to play a part of impartial mediation and speak the counsels of peace and accommodation, not as a partisan, but as a friend.” Woodrow Wilson’s Speech, August 19. 1914. How does Woodrow Wilson suggest the United States should be during the outbreak of World War I?