The underlying purpose for passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to

a. ensure freedom of assembly
b. weaken the Democratic-Republican Party
c. silence critics of states' rights
d. protect the nation from a rush of immigration
e. increase support for a war with Great Britain


Ans: b. weaken the Democratic-Republican Party

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