Gaspee Affair

Target entity: Gaspee Affair
Context triple: [Warwick, Rhode Island, notableHistoricEvent, Gaspee Affair]

• A. Whiskey Ring scandal
  The Whiskey Ring scandal was a major 1870s U.S. political corruption scheme involving distillers and government officials who conspired to defraud the federal government of liquor tax revenues during President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration.
• B. Teapot Dome scandal
  The Teapot Dome scandal was a major 1920s U.S. political corruption case involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves that severely damaged public trust in the Harding administration.
• C. 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.
• D. 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.
• 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: Gaspee Affair
Target entity description: The Gaspee Affair was a 1772 pre-Revolutionary incident in which American colonists attacked and burned the British customs schooner HMS Gaspee, helping fuel tensions that led to the American Revolution.

• A. Whiskey Ring scandal
  The Whiskey Ring scandal was a major 1870s U.S. political corruption scheme involving distillers and government officials who conspired to defraud the federal government of liquor tax revenues during President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration.
• B. Teapot Dome scandal
  The Teapot Dome scandal was a major 1920s U.S. political corruption case involving the secret leasing of federal oil reserves that severely damaged public trust in the Harding administration.
• C. 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.
• D. 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.
• 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