1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Irina-Kira [14]
2 years ago
14

The sedition act made it a crime for U.S citizens to

History
1 answer:
kakasveta [241]2 years ago
4 0

In 1798 the United States stood on the brink of war with France. The Federalists believed that Democratic-Republican criticism of Federalist policies was disloyal and feared that aliens living in the United States would sympathize with the French during a war. As a result, a Federalist-controlled Congress passed four laws, known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts. These laws raised the residency requirements for citizenship from 5 to 14 years, authorized the President to deport aliens, and permitted their arrest, imprisonment, and deportation during wartime. The Sedition Act made it a crime for American citizens to "print, utter, or publish . . . any false, scandalous, and malicious writing" about the Government.


The laws were directed against Democratic-Republicans, the party typically favored by new citizens, and the only journalists prosecuted under the Sedition Act were editors of Democratic-Republican newspapers. Sedition Act trials, along with the Senate’s use of its contempt powers to suppress dissent, set off a firestorm of criticism against the Federalists and contributed to their defeat in the election of 1800, after which the acts were repealed or allowed to expire. The controversies surrounding them, however, provided for some of the first testings of the limits of freedom of speech and press.

You might be interested in
What are some similarities and differences between native Americans and Europeans in the 17th and 18th century regarding beliefs
Sindrei [870]
The way we live now is the cause of why some stupid people want to run for president the world will end soon and I am going to heaven hopefully and all you bad people that don't believe in god are going to die in hell burn 
6 0
3 years ago
Who believed power should not be concentrated in the hands of one individual?
jekas [21]
John locke is the one who believed that 
4 0
3 years ago
Saaang larangan kabilang ang mahabharata at ramayana?
ella [17]

ba saang ramayana goleh goleh

8 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
The Crusades led to an increase in travel and trade in Western Europe as:
SCORPION-xisa [38]
Military Expaditioners?

Are there options?
5 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
At the time of the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson would MOST likely have a greed with which statement?
Ahat [919]

Answer:

D

Explanation:

4 0
3 years ago
Other questions:
  • What political party was the strongest in Germany by 1914?
    13·1 answer
  • The New Deal programs of the Great Depression best demonstrated which of the following principles?
    10·1 answer
  • Who was the astronaut that piloted the first manned space flight
    13·2 answers
  • Japan was more accepting of Western advances than China in the nineteenth century because
    12·1 answer
  • What economic factors and conditions converged in the late 1920s to plunge the nation into the Great Depression?
    9·1 answer
  • Did communism came from philosophy of vladimir lenin? True or False?
    7·1 answer
  • 9. Which of these did President Wilson claim was endangered by the Central Powers
    12·1 answer
  • 4. What role do you think this had on Hamilton and Burr's 1804 duel?
    11·1 answer
  • Please help!!! What is a monopoly?
    5·2 answers
  • Could someone please help?
    5·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!