John Adams, second President of the United States born

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  Lesson 1: From the President's Lips: The Concerns that Led to the Sedition (and Alien) Act

  What conditions provided the impetus for the Sedition Act? Partisan animosity was strong during Adams's presidency. The first two political parties in the U.S. were in their infancy—the Federalists, to which the majority of members of Congress belonged, and the Democratic-Republicans, led by former vice-president Thomas Jefferson and four-term Congressman James Madison, who had left the House in 1796.

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