1. Why did members of Nixon's re-election committee break into the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D. C., in June 1972?!
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to recover secret tape recordings Nixon had made
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to spy on the Democratic presidential campaign
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to tamper with the 1972 presidential election results
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to cover up illegal Nixon campaign activities

was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all americans. the era has had a lasting impact on united states society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. in the south violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled southern white democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the south