Tuesday, Feb. 10
Do Now:
1. Get out something to write with and your spiral
2. Turn in Political Cartoon (XYZ
2. Update Table of Contents if you need to
Date
Title
2/6
Adams notes
2/9
Warm Ups: Feb. 9th to 13th
2/9
Alien and Sedition Acts wksheet
Entry #
8
9
10
4. Warm-Up: Turn to entry #9 . Put the following in order:
*Congress passes the Alien and Sedition Acts
*Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions are passed (attempting to overrule
federal law
*U.S. fears war with France
What am I doing today?
1.
2.
3.
Was the Alien and Sedition Acts constitutional questions?
Finish notes – Election of 1800
Homework – Marbury v. Madison
Warm up
*U.S. fears war with France
*Congress passes the Alien and Sedition Acts
*Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions are passed
(attempting to overrule federal law
Alien and Sedition Act Questions
*With your group, answer the questions on the
back of the page
You have 10 minutes
Alien and Sedition Act Questions
1.
What part of our bill of rights did the Alien and Sedition Act
violate?
The first amendment; freedom of speech and press
2. Should states be able to nullify or cancel laws passed by the
federal government?
Opinion
3. Quote
For the law b/c he says it will only affect foreigners who are plotting
against us. He thinks the laws are necessary to keep the peace
4. Quote
Against the new law. He says that there is no evidence that
foreigners are plotting against us and we can’t give up our liberties
over private fears or overheated imaginations
Play election clip from DVD
Alien and Sedition Acts – Passed by Adams
Issue: What violated freedom of speech?
What did the laws do?
Why were these laws
passed?
What was the response to
the passage of these
laws?
Alien Act – allowed the
president to remove
foreigners from the country.
Change wait time from 5 to
14 years
Adams (Federalist reason) –
Adams said that the U.S. was
at the brink of war with
France and he wanted to
keep
Virginia & Kentucky
Resolutions – Jefferson and
Madison wrote these
resolutions which said stated
didn’t have to follow the
Alien and Sedition acts
because they were
unconstitutional. They
thought state laws could
overpower federal laws
Sedition Act – allowed for
anyone critical of the
government to be arrested.
Synonym for Alien
Synonym for Sedition
Jefferson (Republican
reason)- Jefferson and the
Republicans claimed that
Adams merely wanted to
stifle the criticism his
administration was receiving
Election of 1800 – Jefferson
would defeat Adams.
Electoral Votes
1800