Watergate

What building was broken into during the Watergate Break-in?

• The Capitol Building
• The White House
• Republican Headquarters
• Democratic Headquarters

True or False:
Nixon was impeached from presedency. 

• True
• False

Which statement most accurately depicts why president Nixon had to resign from office in 1974?

• He had an affair with an intern
• He pulled troops out of Vietnam in 1973
• He opened relations with China and the Soviet Union
• He led a criminal conspiracy from the White House, which mislead the nation

During the investigation, the Supreme Court ordered Nixon to hand over what piece of incriminating evidence?

• Tape recordings
• Transcripts of his conversations
• Contracts of different CREEP members
• Receipts of the hotels Nixon had stayed

In August 1974, Richard Nixon becomes the first president to do what?

• Resign
• Die while in office
• Flee the country
• Own a cat

What was the name of the hotel that Nixon allegedly sent people to break in to and spy on the DNC?

• Waterfront
• Watergate
• Wyndgate
• Waterfall

To accuse a government official and/or charge with a crime is known as

• perjury

• political espionage

• impeachment

• subpoena

How did the Watergate scandal get its name?

• Watergates opening was a metaphor used for the flood of information and the president's inability to stop it

• People broke into Richard Nixon's office at the Watergate aprtment complex to get information about the election

• Bill Watergate was the director of the FBI in charge of investigating Nixon but he was corrupt

• there was a break-in at the Watergate apartments and office complex in D.C.

To what does the "Saturday Night Massacre" refer?

• Nixon was impeached on a Saturday; unusual that it wasn't on a week day...

• After many refusals to fire people involved with the investigation of the scandal, Nixon started firing many people himself.

• Nixon ordered his attorney general to fire a special prosecutor and attorney general refused to do it; he resigned

• Nixon ordered people to be killed to keep quiet about his illegal activities in office

Issues surrounding the Watergate Scandal did not reach the Supreme Court and were settled out of court.

• True

• False