(A) suspend habeas corpus
(B) confiscate privately owned weapons
(C) force people into internment camps
(D) ** suspend freedom of speech
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -The Sedition Act forbade Americans to use “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the United States government, flag, or armed forces during war time. In 1916 the federal government established the Council of National Defense.
Concept note-2: -incite disloyalty within the military; use in speech or written form any language that was disloyal to the government, the Constitution, the military, or the flag; advocate strikes on labor production; promote principles that were in violation of the act; or. support countries at war with the United States.
Concept note-3: -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.