<span>The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress in 1798 in preparation for an anticipated war with France. The Naturalization Act increased the Residency requirement for American citizenship from five to fourteen years, required aliens to declare their intent to acquire citizenship five years before it could be granted, and rendered people from enemy nations ineligible for naturalization. The subsequent Sedition Act banned the publishing of scandalous or malicious writings against the government. The acts were designed by Federalists to limit the power of the opposition Republican Party, but enforcement ended after Thomas Jefferson was elected president in 1800. Have A good Day. </span>
In the 1760's Great Britain started imposing taxes on the colonies to pay off the French and Indian War. Colonists who didn't want to pay the taxes would smuggle goods in.
The idea of the New South was the beginning of industrialization and segregation in the south
A. Modernism is the answer
