Q: One effect of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to
A. limit the power of the Democratic Republican Party.
B. prevent juries from acquitting innocent immigrants.
C. provoke a crisis that
briefly united the nation against France.
D. uphold the tradition of presuming a person innocent until proved guilty.
A: The four Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) were designed to prevent public expressions against Federalist policies during the Quasi-War with France. [ To the extent that they criminalized dissent and threatened new immigrants, they impinged upon the concepts of free speech and the rights of states in the US.
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