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    controversies over the Alien and the Sedition Acts‚ containing four bills‚ took place. Some of the controversies included immigration‚ slander and libel of the government‚ and states’ rights. While the controversy set the stage for Jefferson’s election‚ it also left some in tense and unsettled states. The Alien and Sedition Acts brought many disagreements upon the states. The Acts had two bills that seemed to stand out most among the government. The second bill of the Alien and Sedition Acts gave the President

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    Controversy of the Alien and sedition acts In 1796‚ the federalist‚ John Adams‚ was elected as the second president of the United States. At this time the french revolution had been going on for seven bloody years. the federalist party was antipathetic toward the revolution but the ever popular democratic republican party continued‚ as they always did‚ to espouse it. America under George Washington had professed neutrality in the French Revolution but the French disregarded this and attacked American

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    that era‚ our second president‚ John Adams decided to pass the Alien and Sedition Acts. The “alien” part of the Alien and Sedition acts made it harder for immigrants to become citizens of the United States by a noticeable margin. The act made obtaining citizenship take an extra nine years‚ from five years to fourteen. This act also allowed the government to deport immigrants. Furthermore‚ the “sedition” part of the Alien and Sedition acts prevented people‚ including citizens‚ from speaking out against

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    The impacts and consequences that the Alien acts ‚ Sedition acts and Kentucky and Virginia resolutions where important. These things are important because they strengthind our government and country. The Alien and Sedition acts were a series of laws passed by Congress in 1798. These acts where brought up to silence opposition to an expected war with France. It was supported by President Adams and his Federalist Party which controlled Congress. It was opposed by Thomas Jefferson and other Democratic-Republicans

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    In 1798‚ Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. This was a set of four laws‚ namely the Naturalization Act‚ The Alien Friends Act‚ the Alien Enemies Act‚ and the Sedition Act. The three alien acts were meant to manage perceived ‘dangerous’ foreigners in the build-up to a possible war with France while the Sedition Act sought to penalize anyone who spoke or published anything that the state considered offensive (Neuman 52). The various issues of debate that arose from the laws were due to the

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    Alien and Sedition Acts During the late 1700’s a war was starting to brew with France. The president at this time was Federalist John Adams who was preparing North America for war. Adams and congress thought that the best idea would be to enlarge the size of the army in order to help decide the fate of North America if the war with France was to happen. In August of 1798 the war with the French became known as the “Quasi-War”. This is when the Anti-Federalists or also known as the Democratic Republicans

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    u.s. hISORY hONORS | Alien and Sedition Acts | Historical Essay | | Emilee Lord | 8/25/2012 | A brief essay on the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 and why they were a poor decision by the United States’ young government. | When viewing the era of the Adams’ administration‚ with all the political turmoil that is associated with it‚ historians continually come to analyze one set of acts in particular‚ The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798‚ to try to determine whether or not these acts

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    The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 The Alien and Sedition Acts were not merely intended for immigrants who spoke out against the government but more to detain the growth of the Democratic - Republican Party. These four Acts coercively lessoned the likelihood of the party mounting power by eliminating its majority group; soon to be citizens. Many issues led up to the creation of the Acts. This Cause and Effect can be traced all the way back to George Washington’s Presidency; a few years after

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    the country. The Alien and Sedation Acts of 1798 not only oppressed the freedom of aliens wanting to become citizens in the country‚ but broaden conflicts between the Federalist and Republican parties‚ and the beginnings of a break in the government. The two political parties of Federalists and Republicans differed to a great extent and centered on domestic and foreign policy differences‚ reached their highest point of disagreement upon the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1978‚ in purpose

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    speech; but one must ask what are we sacrificing with this protection? The time period during the creation of the Sedition Acts was a time of suspicion and fear in the United States. The government enacted laws to ensure the safety of the President and Congress because they feared the people would lose trust in the government if they read things that were distasteful. Under the Sedition Act anyone who opposed or was against United States law or against the President could be imprisoned up to two years

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