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What led to the passage of the Alien & Sedition Acts?

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The Federalists believed that Democratic-Republican criticism of Federalist policies was disloyal and feared that aliens living in the United States would sympathize with the French during a war. a Federalist-controlled Congress passed four laws, known collectively as the Alien and Sedition Acts.

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