Signing the Sedition Act was a reputation-ruining decision. This one act painted ... U.S. Congress preparing for war would try to silence opposition. In 1918, during World War I, Congress passed ...

In 1798, President John Adams signed a series of four bills designed to safeguard national security in times of war. Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition ... act during the First World ...

In 1918, Congress responded to concerns that the country’s wartime efforts in World War I could be compromised by political dissidents. They passed the Sedition Act of 1918 to alleviate those ...

But another one of the four Sedition Acts slid more under the ... first against British citizens in the War of 1812, then against Germans during World War I. Finally, in World War II, it paved ...

Use of the Alien Enemies Act during World War II led to the ... The Alien Enemies Act was one of four 1798 laws known as the Alien and Sedition Acts—a set of controversial statutes that emerged ...

Three of the four acts expired shortly after they were signed into law in the late 1700s. One remains ... security in times of war. Known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts, they ...