Cracking down on dissent during world war i was part of what larger governmental goal in the united states?
a) seizing absolute power for the government
b) preventing demonstrations against the war
c) uniting americans around the war effort
d) demonstrating american strength to the world

the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.

president thomas jefferson hoped that the embargo act of 1807 would the united states by demonstrating to britain and france their dependence on american goods, convincing them to respect american neutrality and stop impressing american seamen. instead, the act had a devastating effect on american trade.