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Events on Saturday 14 July 1798 2
1798Alien and Sedition ActsFederalist Congress restricts immigrants and dissentThe US Congress passed four laws that lengthened the residency requirement for citizenship, allowed the president to deport aliens, and made it a crime to publish false or malicious writing against the government. Several Republican newspaper editors were prosecuted under the Sedition Act.
1798Alien and Sedition ActsFederalist Congress restricts immigrants and dissentThe US Congress passed four laws that lengthened the residency requirement for citizenship, allowed the president to deport aliens, and made it a crime to publish false or malicious writing against the government. Several Republican newspaper editors were prosecuted under the Sedition Act.