Alien And Sedition Acts

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alien

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immigrants living in a country is not a citizens

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Why did some Americans question the loyalty of some European aliens if the United States went to war with France?

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Many Europeans who came to the United States supported the ideals of the French Revolution.

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sedition

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activities aimed at weakening established government

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Naturalization Act

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Act that required aliens be residents for 14 years instead of 5 years before they became eligible for U. S. citizenship.

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Alien Acts

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Act that allowed the president to imprison aliens, or send those he considered dangerous out of the country.

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Sedition Act

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Act that made it a crime to speak, write, or publish "false, scandalous, and malicious" criticism of government.

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Reasons for Alien and Sedition Acts

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The Federalist-controlled Congress wanted to strengthen the federal government and silence the republican opposition.

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Results of Alien and Sedition Acts

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Discouraged immigration and led to some foreigners already in the country to leave.

Convicted 10 Republican newspaper editiors who had criticized the Federalist in government.

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Reaction to the Alien and Sedition Acts

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Opposition to Federalist party grows.

Led to movement to allow states to overturn federal lawas.

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nullify

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legally overturn law

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states' right

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rights imiting the federal government to those powers clearly assigned to it by the powers not expressly forbidden to them