Alien and Sedition Acts True or False

1. What political situation helped spur Adams and his Federalist Congress to pass the Alien and Sedition Acts? -> The Quasi-War with France.
2. Which one of the Alien and Sedition Acts was used to justify the internment of Japanese-American people during World War II? -> Sedition Act
3. Which two Founding Fathers penned the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions? -> Washington and Jefferson
4. What unintended consequence did the Kentucky Resolution have? -> The concept of Nullification provided a legal justification for secession and thus the Civil War.
5. Why were none of the Alien and Sedition Acts declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court? -> The concept of judicial review did not exist yet.

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