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Alien and Sedition Acts and the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798–1799)

Alien and Sedition Acts and the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798–1799)

  1. XYZ Affair sparks anti-French war fears

    Labels: XYZ Affair, Federalists

  2. Benjamin Franklin Bache arrested for seditious libel

    Labels: Benjamin Bache, Philadelphia Press

  5. Alien Enemies Act sets wartime detention powers

    Labels: Alien Enemies, Congress

  6. Sedition Act criminalizes certain anti-government writings

    Labels: Sedition Act, Congress

  7. Matthew Lyon arrested under Sedition Act

    Labels: Matthew Lyon, Sedition Prosecution

  8. Kentucky legislature adopts first Kentucky Resolutions

    Labels: Kentucky Resolutions, Thomas Jefferson

  9. Virginia House adopts Madison’s Virginia Resolutions

    Labels: Virginia Resolutions, James Madison

  10. Virginia General Assembly finalizes passage of resolutions

    Labels: Virginia General, Virginia Resolutions

  11. Kentucky adopts second resolution stressing “nullification” remedy

    Labels: Kentucky Resolution, Kentucky Legislature

  13. Jefferson wins 1800 election amid backlash to Sedition Act

    Labels: Thomas Jefferson, Election of

  14. Sedition Act expires by its sunset provision

    Labels: Sedition Act, Adams Administration