Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

Free Speech in time of war?

(MS Word Version)

Across
4	the second president of the United States (also the first Vice President)
5	dangerous, risky, frightening
7	without restriction or compulsion
8	a term that emerged from the French Revolution when the Jacobins used the fear of the guillotine to repress political opposition
15	the person who decides what is and is not included in a newspaper
18	Virginia and Kentucky passed these objecting to the Alien and Sedition Act and asserting the right of a state to secede from the Union
23	the legal way to change or add to the constitution
26	name given to traditional English "judge made" law
28	printed slander
30	the home state of Jefferson and Madison (also home to George Washington and James Monroe)
31	this country's revolution (starting in 1789) shook up Europe and America for almost 20 years (until Napoleon was finally defeated in 1815)
32	the act of splitting away (when a state leaves the Union)
33	this Matthew, born in Ireland, became a Congressman from Vermont who was imprisoned under the Sedition Act of 1798 for criticizing President John Adams

Down

1 having a fierce loyalty to one's party, a strong advocate, a fighter

2 the home state of Matthew Lyon

3 the Federalist mastermind and the first Secretary of the Treasury. He saw how trade could unite the interests of North and South

6 He lost the election of 1796 and had to serve as Vice President under John Adams until his party swept to victory in the "Revolution of 1800"

9 the party founded by Jefferson, Madison, and Burr. They exist today as the "Democratic" party. They were originally the party of slaveholding grandees and smaller landholders.

10 a restriction, (something that holds you back)

11 before (happening earlier)

12 applying to ordinary citizens (as in civilians)

13 to outlaw, prevent, or forbid

14 something that happened before and which sets a pattern or example (often an earlier judicial decision)

16 a prefix meaning "almost", "not quite", “half way”, "partially" or "a good imitation of "

17 false speech intended to injure someone's reputation

19 slanders, lies, hurtful falsehoods, and untrue & unjustified insults

20 the most radical Faction of the French Revolution

21 speech designed to undermine a government (or to aid an enemy in time of war)

22 the party of Adams and Hamilton -it's support came mostly from wealthy Northern merchants

24 the legislative branch of the federal government in the United States

25 not true

26 this Samuel was later impeached by the Jeffersonians for his zeal in enforcing the Sedition Act of 1798

27 more than 50%

29 the amendment preventing Congress from making laws restricting free speech or from establishing a religion

Word Bank

prior restraint free common precedent first sedition

Republican Jefferson slander libel editor France quasi

Jacobin terrorism Chase amendment Virginia Vermont Resolutions

secession partisan Adams false calumnies civil prohibit

majority Congress perilous Federalist Hamilton Lyon