Petticoat Affair

Examples of Petticoat Affair in the following topics:

• The Jackson Presidency

  • The relationship between Jackson and Calhoun was further strained by the Petticoat Affair, when the vice president's wife and several Cabinet members socially ostracized Secretary of War John H.
  • Following the Petticoat Affair, Calhoun and Jackson broke apart politically from one another and Van Buren replaced Calhoun as Jackson's running mate in the 1832 presidential election.

• Revolutionary Women

  • Other Patriot women concealed army dispatches and letters containing sensitive military information underneath their petticoats as they rode through enemy territory to deliver it.

• 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.

• Roosevelt, Wilson, and Race

  • For Roosevelt, who was president from 1901-1909, the Brownsville Affair especially 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, blacks began to turn against Roosevelt.
  • Senate Military Affairs Committee investigated the Brownsville Affair, and the majority in March 1908 reached the same conclusion as Roosevelt.
  • Describe the Brownsville Affair during Roosevelt's administration, and Wilson's perpetuation of Jim Crow laws.

• Anarchism

  • 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.

• The Iran-Contra Scandal

  • The Iran–Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986 during the Reagan presidency.
  • Bush, who had been vice-president at the time of the affair.
  • The Iran–Contra affair was a political scandal in the United States that came to light in November 1986.
  • Bush, who had been vice-president at the time of the affair.

• Harassment by Britain

  • The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair was a naval engagement that occurred off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia, on June 22, 1807, between the British warship HMS Leopard and the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
  • The Chesapeake-Leopard Affair created an uproar among Americans and strident calls for war with Great Britain, but these quickly subsided.
  • However, when British envoys showed no contrition for the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair and delivered proclamations reaffirming impressment, the U.S.
  • The festering crisis of impressment and the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair contributed to the eventual outbreak of the War of 1812 and triggered serious diplomatic tensions that helped turn American public opinion against Britain.