Petticoat Affair

(noun)

A U.S. scandal in 1830–1831 involving members of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet and their wives.

Related Terms

  • Jacksonian Democracy
  • Nullification Crisis

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.
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