The Alien and Sedition Acts targeted people who had recently come to the United States as well as those who opposed the U. S. government. What did Congress claim was its justification for passing these laws?

Congress passed 4 laws known as Alien and Sedition Acts. The federalist policies was disloyal and feared that aliens living in the United States would sympathize with the French during a war.

the idealization of the rural landscape ; admiration for the beauty of nature ; focus on an individual's inner concerns

"the attempts of the proletariat to rise above this abasement"