The larger goal was uniting Americans around the war effort.
Cracking down on dissent would be a negative action in support of the larger, positive goal the government sought. The government wanted a fully united public in support of the war, and so it put out the message that that freedom of speech might have its limits in times of war.  
 
        
             
        
        
        
<span>autocracy or an monarchy</span>
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
they wanted to be near water?
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because they were forced to settle there by the American and European settlers.