Haymarket Affair

(noun)

The aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, in Chicago.

Related Terms

Examples of Haymarket Affair in the following topics:

  • Anarchism

    • The next day, May 4, anarchists staged a rally at Chicago's Haymarket Square.
    • The incident became known as the Haymarket Affair, and was a setback for the labor movement and the struggle for the eight-hour day.
    • The event also had the secondary purpose of memorializing workers killed as a result of the Haymarket Affair.

  • The Haymarket Affair

    • Eight anarchists were convicted of conspiracy and seven were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the Haymarket Affair.
    • The Haymarket Affair refers to the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.

  • "Mother" Jones

    • She joined the nascent labor movement and the Knights of Labor , a predecessor to the Industrial Workers of the World who where later dissolved after they were accused of anarchism after the Haymarket Affair.

  • Women's Activism

    • She joined the nascent labor movement and the Knights of Labor (a predecessor to the Industrial Workers of the World), an organization that was later dissolved after members were accused of anarchism after the Haymarket Affair.

  • The Rise of Unions

    • The Haymarket Affair took place in 1886.

  • Labor and Domestic Tensions

    • The Knights avoided violence but their reputation collapsed in the wake of the Haymarket Square Riot in Chicago in 1886, when anarchists bombed the policemen dispersing a meeting.

  • The Rise of Big Business

    • Some strikes escalated into riots, as with the Knights of Labor's strike in 1886 becoming the Haymarket Riots.
    • The Haymarket Riots of 1886 occurred when an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb into a group of police officers.

  • The XYZ Affair

    • The XYZ Affair refers to the bribes demanded by French agents in the negotiating dispatches to cease French seizures of American vessels.
    • Since Adams omitted the names of these French agents in the dispatches, referring to them as "X, Y, and Z", this became known as the XYZ Affair.

  • Theodore Roosevelt and Race

    • For Roosevelt, President from 1901–1909, the Brownsville Affair in particular aroused criticism of his treatment of African Americans.
    • Prior to the Brownsville Affair, the black community had supported the Republican president.
    • After the Brownsville Affair, however, black people began to turn against Roosevelt.
    • Senate Military Affairs Committee investigated the Brownsville Affair and in March 1908 reached the same conclusion as Roosevelt.
    • Describe the effect of Theodore Roosevelt's treatment of the Brownsville Affair

  • Citizen Gênet Affair

    • The Citizen Genêt Affair threatened American neutrality during the French Revolutionary Wars.
    • The "Citizen Genêt Affair" refers to an event from 1793 to 1794, when a French minister, Edmond-Charles Genêt, was dispatched by the French National Assembly to the United States to enlist American support for France's wars with Spain and Britain.
    • The Citizen Genêt Affair spurred Great Britain to instruct its naval commanders in the West Indies to seize all ships trading with the French.
    • The Affair came to an end when the Jacobins, having taken power in France in January 1794, sent an arrest notice to Washington that demanded that Genêt return to France.