Peggy Eaton affair

Target entity: Peggy Eaton affair
Context triple: [Andrew Jackson presidency, majorEvent, Peggy Eaton affair]

• A. Thornton Affair
  The Thornton Affair was an 1846 skirmish between Mexican and U.S. troops along the disputed Texas–Mexico border that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
• B. Beecher–Tilton scandal
  The Beecher–Tilton scandal was a highly publicized 1870s adultery and seduction controversy involving famed preacher Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton that captivated and divided Victorian-era American society.
• C. Bascom Affair
  The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
• D. Straperlo scandal
  The Straperlo scandal was a major political corruption affair in 1930s Spain involving rigged gambling concessions that severely damaged the reputation of the Radical Republican Party and contributed to the destabilization of the Second Spanish Republic.
• E. Calas affair
  The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Peggy Eaton affair
Target entity description: The Peggy Eaton affair was a political and social scandal in the early 1830s involving the ostracism of the Secretary of War’s wife, which deepened divisions within Andrew Jackson’s cabinet and contributed to the resignation of several members.

• A. Thornton Affair
  The Thornton Affair was an 1846 skirmish between Mexican and U.S. troops along the disputed Texas–Mexico border that helped trigger the Mexican–American War.
• B. Beecher–Tilton scandal
  The Beecher–Tilton scandal was a highly publicized 1870s adultery and seduction controversy involving famed preacher Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton that captivated and divided Victorian-era American society.
• C. Bascom Affair
  The Bascom Affair was an 1861 confrontation between the U.S. Army and the Chiricahua Apache that sparked a cycle of violence and is often seen as the event that ignited the Apache Wars.
• D. Straperlo scandal
  The Straperlo scandal was a major political corruption affair in 1930s Spain involving rigged gambling concessions that severely damaged the reputation of the Radical Republican Party and contributed to the destabilization of the Second Spanish Republic.
• E. Calas affair
  The Calas affair was an 18th-century French legal case involving the wrongful execution of Protestant merchant Jean Calas, which became a symbol of religious intolerance and judicial injustice and inspired Voltaire’s campaign for civil rights and legal reform.
• F. None of above. chosen