USA HISTORY

This piece of legislation states that it was illegal to do/say anything that hurt the government’s war effort during WWI

(A) The Alien and Sedition Acts

(B) ** The Espionage and Sedition Acts

(C) Schenck vs. The United States

(D) Roe vs. Wade

Concept note-1: -President Woodrow Wilson, in conjunction with congressional leaders and the influential newspapers of the era, urged passage of the Sedition Act in the midst of U.S. involvement in World War I.

Concept note-2: -The Act criminalized the publication or distribution of “information” that could harm or hinder US armed forces as well as of “false reports or false statements” intended to promote America’s enemies, and it empowered the Postmaster General to seize mail that it judged to fall within these categories.

Concept note-3: -During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson pushed for new laws that criminalized core First Amendment speech. Congress passed the Espionage Act shortly after the U.S. entered the war. The Act made it a crime to convey information intended to interfere with the war effort.