Trent Affair

(noun)

The Trent Affair, also known as the Mason and Slidell Affair, was an international diplomatic incident that occurred during the American Civil War.

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Examples of Trent Affair in the following topics:

  • International Diplomacy

    • War loomed in late 1861 between the United States and Britain over the Trent Affair, involving the U.S.
    • The Trent Affair brought a U.S.
    • The Trent Affair brought a U.S.

  • Confederate Diplomacy

    • The Trent Affair involved the illegal boarding of a British ship in an attempt to enforce the Union's blockade of the Confederacy.

  • France and Cardinal Richelieu

    • He became the first bishop in France to implement the institutional reforms prescribed by the Council of Trent.
    • In 1616, he was made Secretary of State responsible for foreign affairs.

  • Discontent with the Roman Catholic Church

    • The Roman Catholic Church responded with a Counter-Reformation initiated by the Council of Trent and spearheaded by the new order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), specifically organized to counter the Protestant movement.
    • Painting representing the artist's depiction of The Council of Trent.
    • It met for twenty-five sessions between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563, in Trento (then the capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Trent in the Holy Roman Empire), apart from the ninth to eleventh sessions held in Bologna during 1547.

  • Blogs, Podcasts, and Cyberspace

    • An early milestone in the importance of blogs in politics came in 2002, when bloggers focused on comments by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott .
    • The Trent Lott-Strom Thurmond scandal was first picked up and publicized by early political blogs.

  • References

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  • Mannerism and the Counter-Reformation

    • Church pressure to restrain religious imagery affected art from the 1530s and influenced several decrees from the final session of the Council of Trent in 1563.
    • Scipione Pulzone's painting of the Lamentation, commissioned for the Gesu Church in 1589, gives a clear demonstration of what the Council of Trent was striving for in the new style of religious art.

  • 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.