Prosecutions under the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) can be characterized in the following waysexcept
A) antiwar socialists and labor leaders were visibly targeted.
B) 1,900 Americans were prosecuted under these laws.
C) the laws meant that any criticism of the government could be censored and punished.
D) the Supreme Court ultimately ruled that they were unconstitutional violations of freedom of speech and association.
E) after the war, President Harding issued pardons to many of those prosecuted, including labor leader Eugene Debs.
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