What happened to John Adams during the Sedition Act?
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From Wikipedia:\n\n"The Alien and Sedition Acts were acts of Congress passed during the administration of President John Adams; his signature made them into law on July 14, 1798. They were designed to protect the United States from aliens alleged dangerous.\n\n"With war looming against a major power, France, Federalists in Congress, in 1798, passed the laws to protect national security in the United States. They were similar to, but not as stringent as laws passed at about the same time in the United Kingdom and Canada in response to the threat of subversion by agents of the radical French government. Jeffersonians, however, recognized that the laws were to be used as a tool of the ruling Federalist party to extend and retain their power, silencing any opposition. Because most immigrants became Democratic-Republicans, the Naturalization Act's longer residency requirement meant that fewer of them could become citizens and vote against the Federalists. Under the Alien and Alien Enemies Acts, the president could deport any "dangerous" or "enemy" alien — a law that is still in effect in 2006.\n\n"Under the Sedition Act, anyone "opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States" could be imprisoned for up to two years. It was also illegal to "write, print, utter, or publish" anything critical of the president or Congress. It was notable that the Act did not prohibit criticism of the Vice-President. Jefferson held the office of Vice-President at the time the Act was passed so the law left him open to attack. While it appears harsh to current Americans, the act was actually much more lenient than the traditional British law of seditious libel. For instance:\n\n"The act required the defamatory words to be false, and it permitted the defendant to plead truth as a defense, unlike traditional seditious libel law, in which truth actually made the offense greater with the principle "the greater the truth, the greater the libel." In other words, as long as someone uttered or published the truth, he could not be convicted under the Sedition Act. \n\n"The act required the defendant to know of the defamatory words' falsity. In other words, someone who uttered a falsehood believing it to be the truth could not be convicted. \n\n"The act allowed the use of a jury to determine both the facts and the law in the case, unlike traditional seditious libel. \n\n"Despite these modifications, however, Jeffersonians denounced the Sedition Act as a violation of the First Amendment of the United States Bill of Rights, which protected the right of free speech. To Jefferson and Madison, it was not that they disagreed with it violating free speech; it was the method by which it was passed. The First Amendment clearly states that "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." Therefore, the matter should be left up to the states to decide, not Congress. Although the Federalists hoped the Act would muffle the opposition, Democratic-Republicans still "wrote, printed, uttered and published" their criticisms of the Federalists. Indeed, they strongly criticised the act itself, and used it as an election issue. The act expired when the term of President Adams ended in 1800.\n\n"Thomas Jefferson and James Madison opposed the Acts, and drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in protest, calling on the states to, in effect, veto federal legislation. Key to these resolutions was the Compact Theory, which states that the United States are made up of a voluntary union of States that agree to give up some of their soverignty in order to join the union. Therefore, states can determine if the federal government has gone too far. Most other states saw this theory as destructive towards the union.\n\n"Ultimately the Acts backfired against the Federalists; President Adams himself never
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Link below is the source of this information:\n\nSmith's firm leadership (he was soon elected president of the colony) held the colonists together and narrowly avoided extinction. Wounded by an explosion of gunpowder, Smith sailed to England in late 1609 to recover. He never returned to Virginia.\n\nThe entire article is really very interesting.
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Called for civil disobedience against the British\n\nFirst met in Philly in 1774
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John Adams\n"By a legislative oddity, while Jefferson had outpolled Adams, he was technically tied with Burr, as the Democratic-Republican electors had failed to distinguish between the two candidates even though Jefferson was clearly earmarked as the leader. Burr, sensing an unforeseen opportunity to become chief executive, refused to relinquish his claim, and the election was thrown to the House of Representatives for a decision." However, that doesn't mean he almost BEAT him. Be more clear in the wording of your question.
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http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/langdon/langdon.htm\n\nHe was a strong believer in the American Revolution. He was a member of the committee that found a compromise on the issue of slavery. Initially, his sympathies laid on the side of a strong central government, so he was a member of the Federalist party. Later he changed his views and joined the Democratic-Republican party. \n\ns
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A meeting of delegates from the American colonies to discuss the Stamp Act.  They adopted a Declaration of Rights and Grievances that was sent to the King of England and Parliament.  They are seen by many as being the first American action that led to the Revolutionary War.
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Says who? Even Washington had a VP- John Adams.
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Lincoln. The chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Roger B. Taney, ruled Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus to be unconstitutional (only Congress has such power), but he was ignored by Lincoln as the mass arrests of political dissenters continued. As described by Dean Sprague in Freedom Under Lincoln (p. 161): "The laws were silent, indictments were not found, testimony was not taken, judges did not sit, juries were not impaneled, convictions were not obtained and sentences were not pronounced. The Anglo-Saxon concept of due process, perhaps the greatest political triumph of the ages and the best guardian of freedom, was abandoned." Thousands of political prisoners languished in Fort Lafayette in New York harbor, which came to be known as "The American Bastille." \n\nDozens of Northern newspapers were shut down and their editors and owners were imprisoned if they opposed the Lincoln administration. On May 18, 1864 Lincoln sent the following order to General John Dix: "You will take possession by military force, of the printing establishments of the New York World and Journal of Commerce . . . and prohibit any further publication thereof . . . you are therefore commanded forthwith to arrest and imprison . . . the editors, proprietors and publishers of the aforesaid newspapers."\n\nAll telegraph communication was censored, the railroads were nationalized, and federal troops were ordered to interfere with Northern elections to ensure Republican victories. Lincoln won New York state by 7000 votes "with the help of federal bayonets," wrote Pulitzer Prize–winning Lincoln biographer David Donald in Lincoln Reconsidered. Several dozen members of the Maryland legislature were thrown into military prison along with the mayor of Baltimore and Congressman Henry May of Maryland so that they could not meet to discuss secession.
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Adam? George Washington? Hmmmm.don't know
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The eighteenth amendment was done away with; it was about the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.  Consequently, many people made their own beer and liquor, which was called bootlegging.
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long and sordid really, started in 1763 with a royal proclimation orgainizing the territories into 4 regions.  The sugar act, currency act, stamp act, quartering act (this one really got the hackles up) Townshend acts (this pissed off a lot of the colonists, paying for the "kings war"), etc etc.\nIt was a conglomoration of a lot of things that built up to a bursting point.
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The Brits drew up the Port Act as punishment. No vessels could enter Boston Harbor. They had to go to Plymouth instead. The British hoped this would destroy Boston as a political center. It didn't work.
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Several things including Indian Removal, The Nullification crisis and introducing the "spoils system"\n\nFor more information, view the link below.
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It appears that he was the 9th. John Hancock signed first, as President of the Congress, and then the signers signed by geographic order of state from north to south. Samuel Adams was the first delegate from Massachussets to sign, and thus he would be the 9th.
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how did sam adams promote the fear? or how did he end it/care for it.well the fact he jumped on their tea ship naked and dumped it all in the harbour could help. and the fact that he constantly was trying to push for freedom, and knew how to fight on their front.
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Hi, check the site below it didnt have a huge section on Judge Adams.  Hope this helps.