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Alien Acts Dbq Analysis
President Adams’s response to the French foreign threat was to pass a series of laws that included the repression of domestic protest. The four bills are known as the Alien and Sedition Acts that were collectively passed by the Federalist Congress and President Adams in 1789. There were three Alien Acts. The first, being the Alien Enemies Law, which granted the president extraordinary wartime powers. The president was able to detain or deport citizens of the nations that the United States were at war with. Also those who the president thought were acting in a suspicious manner. This legislation never went into effect because President Adams never declared a war. The second act, the Alien law, gave power to the president to banish any foreigners

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