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When Eugene Debs Was Sentenced Under the Espionage Act, What

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When Eugene Debs was sentenced under the Espionage Act, what did he tell the jury?


A) that he was happy to serve as a martyr for his cause, like John Brown had before him
B) that Woodrow Wilson was an inept president who ought to be sentenced for sending young men into battle
C) that as a Socialist he rejected the Constitution of the United States
D) that Americans in the past who spoke out against colonialism, slavery, or the Mexican War were not indicted or charged with treason
E) that he was not a Communist spy as he had been charged and that he had been wrongly accused by his political opponents

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