​Prosecutions Under the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act

question 49

Multiple Choice

​Prosecutions under the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) can be characterized in the following waysexcept

• A) ​antiwar socialists and labor leaders were visibly targeted.
• B) ​1,900 Americans were prosecuted under these laws.
• C) ​the laws meant that any criticism of the government could be censored and punished.
• D) ​the Supreme Court ultimately ruled that they were unconstitutional violations of freedom of speech and association.
• E) ​after the war, President Harding issued pardons to many of those prosecuted, including labor leader Eugene Debs.

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