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US National Archives

Our Documents: The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)

For Students 9th - 10th
The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed by Congress in 1798 because of feared war with France. This engaging page gives you the opportunity to see a complete copy of the original document and also gives links to a typed transcript,...
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Yale University

Avalon Project: Alien and Sedition Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
This timeline provides links to the texts of the Alien and Sedition Acts, and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions that protested them.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Sedition Act and the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read about the foreign policy problems the United States was having at the beginning of the Adams administration. See what led up the the passage of the Sedition Act and some ramifications of it, and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions...
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Primary
Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Archiving Early America: Alien and Sedition Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from Archiving Early America provides an explanation of the Naturalization, Alien, Alien Enemies and Sedition Acts, shows the original acts and provides transcribed texts of the Alien Enemies and the Sedition Acts.
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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: United States vs. Thomas Cooper

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The information, documents and lessons relating to the United States vs. Thomas Cooper case. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).