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American Experience: Espionage and Sedition Acts

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As progressive a president as Woodrow Wilson was, when the U.S. joined World War I, he signed legislation that made it a crime to criticize the government. Read about the espionage and sedition acts that were passed and how they were zealously enforced.

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anarchists, civil liberties, red scare, suspension of civil liberties, albert sidney burleson, american home front in world war i, emma goldman, espionage act of 1917, eugene v. debs, iww, industrial workers of the world, president woodrow wilson, sedition act
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)