The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) were four laws passed by Federalists that restricted the activities of foreign residents in the country, allowed the government to deport foreigners seen as "dangerous", made it difficult for immigrants to vote, requiring them to reside for 14 years in the U.S. to become eligible to vote, and it prohibited public opposition to the government.
1. What led to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts?
The Acts were passed after the diplomatic incident called "XYZ Affair" that almost involved the United States and France in war. Facing French foreign threat, the Federalist President Adams created the acts as a way to prevent subversion in the United States against governmental measures.
2. What made them so controversial?
The Acts, especially the Sedition Act, were so controversial because it violated people's rights of freedom of speech and of the press protected under the First Amendment. Under the acts, anyone who wrote, printed, uttered or published any writing seen as false, scandalous and malicious against the government could be imprisoned or would have to pay fines.
<span>It was Article 231 that came to be called the War Guilt
clause that held Germany responsible for causing the war. It humiliated the Germans and they were very
angry about it. It also forced the
Germans to pay for damages caused by the war.
This bitter resentment among the Germans would later be used by Adolf
Hitler to rally the German people under his leadership and led to the rise of
Nazism in Germany. When Hitler assumed
power, he began invading one country after another which led to World War II.</span>
<span>A) Slavery was abolished, the Colosseum was built and the empire expanded. In this time, tranquility ceased to exist, slavery and the rulers built social and public works. C) The Coliseum was built, the empire expanded and more public works were built. It was the construction of the Coliseum and different works, the empire was also developed until reaching its maximum power and success. D) The emperors waged wars with the surrounding territories, more public works were built and fewer farmers were needed. The war ceased during a time of intense peace and tranquility, lived by the Roman Empire, where it reached its maximum economic development and territorial expansion.</span>
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<span>Kepler's laws of motion helped overturn the earlier Aristotelian astronomical system which believed that the sun and planets revolved around the Earth. In order for the older system to work, a complicated mechanism known as "epicycles" was required to make the visible motions match the theory.</span>
