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.

• References

  • ., & the Task Force on Statistical Inference, APA Board of Scientific Affairs. (1999).

• 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.

• Interest Groups

  • Prominent examples of these organizations include the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Cuban American National Foundation, the Armenian Assembly of America, the U.S.
  • The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a prominent foreign policy interest group

• Processes

  • A process is defined as: (1) a series of progressive, interrelated steps or actions from which an end result is attained, or (2) a prescribed procedure or a method of conducting affairs.

• 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.