On January 1, 1959 Fidel Castro and his band of guerillas took over the government of President General Fulgencio Batista. Although the United States supported Castro during his revolution against Batista's regime, it was uneasy over the communist leanings of Castro. In 1960, Castro seized private lands and took over all U.S. owned businesses in Cuba and imposed heavy taxes on American goods. As a result, the United States ended diplomatic ties with Cuba and imposed a trade embargo which made Cuba turn to the Soviet Union instead. The United States made several unsuccessful attempts to overthrow the Cuban government.
The new party that formed was called the Constitutional Union Party. It was made out of former Whig members who teamed up with the know-nothing party former members in order to make a new party that would only look to the constitution as the only law that is important for the United States.
The law was extended on May 16, 1918, by the Sedition Act<span> of 1918, actually a set of amendments to the </span>Espionage Act<span>, which prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States ... or the flag of the United States</span>
