#tdih The Sedition Act of 1918 was enacted to extend the Espionage Act of 1917. The Sedition Act covered a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.
Among those arrested under the act, Eugene Debs and Marie Equi.
Read more below and listen to a reading of Debs’ infamous Canton, Ohio speech.