MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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Anyone who works together to oppose the government will be fined a lot of money and be put in jail for some time.
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Anyone who writes bad stuff against the government will be fined and put into jail for no more than 2 years.
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Any foreigner who is kicked out of the US and returns anyway ____ will be put in jail for as long as needed.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Democratic-Republicans took power in 1800, in part because of backlash to the Alien and Sedition Acts, and all but the Alien Enemies Act were eliminated by the next Congress. The Alien Enemies Act has been invoked several times since, particularly during World War II.
Detailed explanation-2: -President John Adams oversees passage of first of Alien and Sedition Acts. President John Adams oversees the passage of the Naturalization Act, the first of four pieces of controversial legislation known together as the Alien and Sedition Acts, on June 18, 1798.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alien and Sedition Acts, (1798), four internal security laws passed by the U.S. Congress, restricting aliens and curtailing the excesses of an unrestrained press, in anticipation of an expected war with France.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Federalists believed that Democratic-Republican criticism of Federalist policies was disloyal and feared that aliens living in the United States would sympathize with the French during a war. As a result, a Federalist-controlled Congress passed four laws, known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts.