The Sedition Acts created during the Adams administration were acts that put strict terms on any citizen who disagreed with or failed to abide by John Adams’s foreign policy. In these acts, nobody could publish anything seemingly malicious toward the government. Doing so would result in harsh punishment. The Sedition Acts primarily were targeted at Democrats because new citizens inhabited that political party. These acts all happened in 1798, and they placed strict terms and policies on citizens’ unalienable rights of the Constitution.