U.S. Political Scandals

Can you name these American political scandals?

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President	Hint	Answer
N/A	Upset over their lack of pay, several Continental Army officers plan a coup	Newburgh Conspiracy
George Washington	Georgia Governor George Matthews sells 40 million acres for $500,000	Yazoo Land Fraud
Thomas Jefferson	This disgraced Vice-President tries to start his own country	Burr Conspiracy
John Quincy Adams	John Quincy Adams appoints Henry Clay as Secretary of State in return for the Presidency	Corrupt Bargain
Andrew Jackson	Wives of important Cabinet members socially ostracize the Eaton family	Petticoat Affair
Ulysses S. Grant	Union Pacific overcharges the government and pockets $44 million by using this shell company	Crédit Mobilier
Theodore Roosevelt	3/4 Congress members from this state resign after selling fraudulently gained land for profit	Oregon Land Fraud
Warren G. Harding	Oil companies bribe Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior, to lease them these petroleum reserves	Teapot Dome Scandal
Lyndon B. Johnson	The government fakes this incident to escalate the Vietnam War	Second Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Richard Nixon	Nixon hires five men to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters and help his re-election	Watergate
Ronald Reagan	The government sells arms to Iran and uses the revenue to fund rebels in Nicaragua	Iran-Contra Affair
Bill Clinton	The President and this intern did, indeed, have sexual relations	Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal

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