Key points. Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer were convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act for mailing leaflets encouraging men to resist the military draft. They appealed to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the conviction violated their free speech rights.
The treaties were used to remove the Cherokee and other native American tribes from their lands by telling and persuading them that they would be moved to a better 'more civilized' place for new life opportunities.
