As a result of the Sedition Acts,
a. illegal immigrants were deported.
b. newspaper editors critical of the Adams administration were indicted, tried, convicted, and sent to jail.
c. many Americans, staging political protests, found their Constitutional right to peaceful assembly was violated.
d. the nation implemented its first military draft.
e. citizens' rights to trial by jury were suspended.
b
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