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 who where later dissolved after they 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.

  • References

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  • 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