Select the correct answer.

Which statement best describes the Credit Mobilier scandal?

A.

Grant's vice president was involved in a scheme in which railroad Insiders hired themselves to build railroads at inflated prices.

B. Grant's secretary of war took bribes to sell Indian trading posts.

C.

Chester Arthur made efforts to avoid patronage when he became acting president after President Garfield was assassinated.

D.

Two speculators artificially inflated the price of gold, bribing Grant's brother-in-law to keep the US Treasury from releasing

gold.

The Credit Mobilizer Scandal took place in the year 1867 and it was in the year 1872 it caught public attention

Explanation:

The statement A best describes the Credit Mobilier Scandal

(Grant's vice president was involved in a scheme in which railroad Insiders hired themselves to build railroads at inflated prices)

The key players of this scandal were the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier of America construction company. This scandal was committed while building the union pacific Railroad. it involved manipulation of contracts by the construction and the finance companies of U. S