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(03.06r mc)
which of the following groups would likely be targeted by the sedition act?
socialists
ku klux klan
democrats
labor unions
The Sedition Act (1918) targeted speech and groups seen as opposing the U.S. government or war effort during WWI. Socialists openly criticized the war and capitalist government, making them a prime target. The Ku Klux Klan focused on racial terror, not anti-government war opposition; Democrats were a major political party, not a targeted anti-war group; labor unions' primary focus was workplace rights, not widespread seditious anti-government speech in the scope the act targeted.
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