What was the purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts? 1. They were laws created by Federalists to silence opposition and discourage immigration.
2. They were laws created by Republicans to investigate members of rival political parties.
3. They were a series of laws created to expedite the process for naturalization in the United States.
4. They were a series of immigration laws created to appease the Republican party.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

“a committee reviews the bill and marks it up to make it more viable and to reflect interests 

d) the lindbergh baby kidnapping

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