UGS 303 Lecture 4: Interpreting the past 7: The Alien and the Sedition Acts

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Undergraduate Studies
• Course: UGS 303
• Professor: Dr. Knapp

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Interpreting the past 7: the alien and the sedition acts. The contested republic gave rise to the two parties namely the democratic-republican and the. The federalists were able to appoint john adams as the president who after two years of presidency enacted the alien and the sedition acts. the. In these two competing ideologies and the party lineages, the democratic-republican government supported the rising republics in spain and france. However, the federalist party aligned with britain in a hope to open new markets for the american-produced goods and. Generate a path towards economic prosperity ( oakes). the federalist wing had negotiated the jay treaty with great britain in a hope to improve the america-britain relationship. However, it angered france which was at war with britain at that period. Later, the xyz affair would add fuel to fire: the fire being the rising tension between america and france. the acts of france were ideologically backed up by that of democratic-republican party.