True- Ninety-eight years ago today, Congress passed the Sedition Act of 1918, which made it an imprisonable offense to criticize the federal government or U.S. military involvement in World War I. The legislation, which expanded the Espionage Act of 1917, came at the height of wartime fear and anger
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<span>On the ignoble side, there were many Americans who did not want to annex the Philippines for racial reasons. ... Some Americans opposed the annexation of the Philippines following the Spanish-American War because they felt that it was not humane. Opponents of annexation formed the American Anti-Imperialist League in 1898.</span>