Isle of Palms, South Carolina. Isle of Palms is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population of the city was 4,133. Isle of Palms is a barrier island on the South Carolina coast.
The goal of the Alien and Sedition Acts is to stop immigration into the United States. It was passed in 1798 by the Federalists and signed by President John Adams. It is used to protect the United States from foreign citizens that can initialize seditious attacks that lead to the weakening of the government. Comments.
President John Adams made no use of the alien acts. Most controversial, however, was the Sedition Act, devised to silence Republican criticism of the Federalists.he Republican-controlled Congress repealed the Naturalization Act in 1802; the others were allowed to expire (1800â1801). See J. C. Miller, Crisis in Freedom (1951, repr. 1964); J. M. Smith, Freedom's Fetters (1956); L. Levy, Legacy of Suppression (1960). The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed.